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JOHN  WARD  DEAN,  A.M., 

IS  Somerset  Street,  Boston. 


paottsfjittg  Committee. 

ALBERT  HARRISON  1IOYT,  A.M.,  JOHN  WARD  DEAN,  A.M.. 

FRANK  ELIOT  BRAD1SH,  A.E.,  GEORGE  »ROW  N  KKAPPl  A.M. 

WILLAKD  SPENCER  ALLEN,  A.M. 


STotlor. 
JOHN  WARD  DEAN. 

CONTENTS  — J  ANU  Alt  Y  ,    18  94. 

***  Illustrations  : 

1.  Fpwers's  Bust  of  LEVI  WOODBURY  (to  face  page  9). 

2.  Noyes  Inscription  at  Wequetequoe  Cove  {to  face  page  IS). 

3.  Noyes  Anns  {page  10). 

4.  kutbgrapb  of  JOHN  BRIANT  {page  4$). 

5.  Plan  of  the  Ancient  Line  Feilde  of  Charlestown  (jtM£r2  56). 

I.  Memoir  of  Hon.  Levi  W'oowiruY.     By  Hon.  Charles  Levi  Wo&doury ,        .        .  9 

IT.  Inscriptions  at  Norfolk,  Ya,    Camtnuttieatedby  Edward  W.  James,  Esq.      .  17 

III.  Notes  Inscription  And  Memoranda.     By  James  Atkins  Xoyes,  Ph. B.        .        .  K3 

IV.  Excise  ox  Bread  in  Boston-  in  1731.    Communicated  bv  the  late  Jeremian  Co!~ 

burn,  A.M.        .        .        .    ■ 20 

V.    The  Swoans  of  Washington.    By  Col.  Thornton  A.  Washington       .        .        .  21 
VI.     Dfatks  at  Stratham,   X.   II.      {Continued.)      Communicated  by   Charles  C 

Hard;/,  Esq.   ■ ' -~ 

VII.    Letters  or  Col.  Thomas  Westbrook  and  others.     (Continutd.)    Comrimfti- 

eated  by  WkWam  B< Trask,  A.M 31 

VIII.    British  Officer?  Serving  in  America.    Communicated  by   Worthinyton  C. 

Ford,  Esq ".."..  26 

IX.    Descendants  of  John  Briant,  Sen.  ",By  Dr.  Percy  Bryant        ....  -16 
X.    Inscriptions  At  St.  Augustine,  Florid  A;    (Gontiime'd.)    Communicated  by  B. 

Frank  Leeds,  Esq 53 

XL    Ancient  Line  Feilde  of  Chahiictowx.     By  Geo.  A.  Gordon,  A.M.  .        .  57 

XII.    Kellogg  Families  of  Colchester,     By  Jatrtes  H.  JPerrin,  Esq.         ...  59 

XIII.  A  Fkksii  Note  on  the  New-Englaxd  Primer.    By  Rev.  B.  F.  DeCosta,  D.D.  64 

XIV.  Kiutland  or  Kieexand  Family.     By  V.  C.  Sanborn,  Esq.          ....  85 
XV.    Snow  Genealogy.     {Continued.)    By  Mrs.  Charles  L.  A'den       ....  71 

XVI.    Notes  and  Queried: 

iVote*.— Christmas  at  the  Isies  of  Shoals,  73;  Hibbins  and  Bellingharu ; 
Andre's  Execution,  71. 

Queries.— Sherman,  Soute,  Bennet  and  Braley,  71:  Ingersoll,  Low.  Gannett 
ami  Wadleigh,  75;  Medical  Graduates  of  Bu'wdoin  College;  Smith;  Paine,  76; 
Williams',  Lon«bottom  and  Olds;  John  Heal;  Settlement  of  the  WeNh  Tract: 
Phillips  and  Prnden ;  Coffin;  77:  Spencer;  Day,  Dickinson  and  Kellogg;  Kel- 
io^i,,  Miilerand  D.-.vev;  Cook,  78. 

"Replies.— Soldiers  in  Philips  War,  Stiff.  78;  Rolfe;  Esther  Hanford ;  Pey- 
ton ;  Richard  Jaques,  79;  Keltars  and  Foote,  M. 

Historical  Intelligence. -rDr.  Marshall's  Genealogist's  Guide,  Third  Edition, 

7S,  Discovery  of  the  Birthplace  of  the  Apostle  Eliot;  Lincoln  County  Probate 

.    Records;    Deni-uii  Souvenir  Spoon;   Dudley  Family  Reiics;    Genealogies   in 

PreDa.e.t.on,  50  ......' 73--31 

XVII.    Societies  and  tueih  Proceedings  : 

New-England  Historic  Genealogical  Society,  81 ;  Old  Colony  Historical  Society; 
Maine  Historical  Societv,   S2;    Rhode  Isi.uiJ  Historical  Societv;  New  Haven 

Colony  Historical  Society,  S3 a  1-83 

XVIII.    Necrology  of  the  New-England  ftisjoRic  Genealogical  Society  : 

Rev.  Andrew  P.  Peabadv,  D.D.:  Francis  Parkman.  LL.D.,  34;  Hon.  Leopold 
Morse,  8»;  Hon.  Asa  Millet,  M.D  ;  Gee-e  Whitfield  Averv,  So;  Abraham 
Aver-. ,  -87;  Rev.  Charles  Morris  Blake:  John  Farwell  Anderson,  Esq.;  Hon. 
Samuel  T.  Armstrong;  Hon.  Frederick  Billings;  Jeremiah  Coibnrn,  A.M.: 
Samuel  P.  Fowler,  Esq.:  Hon.  John  P.  Healv,  SS;  H?y.  Thomas  R.  Lambert; 
William  H.  Montau'iie.  Esq  ;  Rev.  Elias  Nason ;  Ira  B.  Peck,  Esq.;  Samuel  B. 
Kludge,  Esq.;  Nathaniel  F.  Satford,  Esq*;  Rev.  Increase  N.  Tarbox ;  William 
F.  Weld,  Esq. ;  Henry  A.  Whitney,  A.M. ;  Cyrus  Woodman,  A.M.,  Vi  S  $-39 

,'       .        .     " .        .        .,        89-100 

ons         .        .       • 101-103 

1(13-104 

kanings  in  England.     {Continued. \     By  Hmry  F.  Waters, 


XIX. 

L\.'OK  Notices 

XX. 

REcent  Pcblicati 

XXI. 

Deaths 

XXII. 

GENEALOGICAL  Gl 

A.M. 

105-144 


Committer  on  publication. 

ALBERT  H.  HOY T,  WiLLARD  S.  ALLEN, 

FRANK  E.  BEADLSH,      GEORGE  B.  KNAPP, 

JOHN   WARD  DEAN. 


Ho  it  or. 
JOHN  WARD  DEAN. 

CONTENTS-APRIL,   1894. 

***  Illustrations : 

1.  Portrait  of  DAVID  CLAPP  {to  face  page  145). 

2.  Autographs  of  Nicholas  Clapp,  Nathaniel  Clap  and  David  Clap  [page  145), 

3.  Autograph  of  David  Clapp,  Senior  (page  148). 

4.  PYNCHON  ARMS  (page  255). 

I.    Memoir  or  David  Clait,  Esq.    By  William  B.  Trask,  A.M 14-5 

II.    British  Officers  Serving   in   America.      [Continued.)     Communicated  by 

WortMngton  C.  Fore1,  Esq 157 

III.  Gov/ SlMOS  Bradsbrebt's.  AnceSTR^.  By  kiac  J.  Greevipood,  A.M.  .  .  16S 
IY.  Rev.  Stephen  PeabobS  and  Wife.  By  William  C.  Todd,  A.M.  ...  171 
V.    Memoranda   by   Robert  Foster    op    Kingston,    Mass.      Communicated  by 

Charles  E.  Briggs,  M.D 182 

YI.     Letters  of  Col.  Thomas. Westsrook  and  others.     {Continued.)     Communi- 

cared  by  William  B.  Trask.,  A.M.  1S4 

VII.    Snow  Gent.ai.ogy.     (Continued.)    ByJlfrs.  Chftrles  L.  JLldm        ....        188 
YIII.    Rev.  William  Adams  of  New  York,  with  Adams  and  Bradford  descent. 

By  Miss i  Emily ■  Wilder  Leavilt ISO 

IX.    Connection  op  the  Family  of  Edison,  the  Inventor,  with  Digby,  XT.  S. 

By  Judge  A.  W.  Sevan/ 1J9 

X.    Martin's  or  M.rtea's  Vineyard?    By  Cnvies  E.  Banks,  M.D.      ...        201 
XI.    Some  Descendants  or  Rev.  John  Robinson  of  Leyden.    By  Hon.  Ariel  S. 

Th»rs*on 20-i 

XII.    The  Maverick  Family.    By  Isaac  John  Greenwood,  A.M 20/' 

XIII.  Notes  and  Queries  : 

Aro/es.— Weems,  Towson,  Wallace,  Payne,  of  Virginia,  210;  Family  Records, 
211:  Rev.  Thomas  Davies ;  Crane  Epitaphs';  King,  212;  Gorham,  Graham*  213. 

Queries. — The  Parentage  of  Dr.  John  Bishop;  Tfcomas  Hubbard,  213;  Xing, 
Hyde,  Stow?!!.  Sawyer,  214;  Bott,  May,  Xeale,  Smith  and  Wiley;  Ball;  Family 
Record  of  Cape.  John  R.  Russell,  215;  Haiietl;  Fones;  Mary  Valentine;  Owen 
and  Gilmore,  216:  Birth-,  exact  dates  wanted;  CoristaDtin'e  Phipps;  Samuel 
Sharpe;  Asa  Adam.-;  Morton,  217;  Fuller;  Fiske  Family;  Thomas  Broad; 
Hazard;  Carow  or  Caroe;  Dr.  Daniel  Gilbert,  218;  Joanna  Brown;  Clarke; 
Bracken.;  Mason;  Wall;  Mary  Kingsiey;  Abijah  Adams,  219. 

Historical  Intelligence.— Heraldry  ;  List  of  British  Officers  serving  in  America, 
219;  Suffolk  Manorial  Families;  Collections  of  the  Connecticut  Historical 
Society  *  SparLawk ;  Remich  ;  Genealogies  in  Preparation,  220     .        .        .        210-233 

XIV.  Societies  and  their  Proceedings: 

New-England  Historic  Genealogical  Society,  221 ;  Old  Colony  Historical  Society ; 
Rhode  Island  Historical  Society,  222;  Connecticut  Historical  Society;  Maine 
Genealogical  Society,   223;    Maine  Historical    Society;    Wyoming  Historical 

Society,  221  " 221-224 

XV.    Necrology  of  the  New-England  Historic  Genealogical  Society: 

Hon.  Charles  Henrv  Bell,  LL.D.;  Hon.  John  James  Bell;  Gyles  Merrill,  225; 

Henry  Wheatland,  M.D.,  226;  Augustus  Russ,  223 224-228 

XVI.     Book  Notices 229-23S 

XVII.    Recent  Publications 238-240 

XVIII.    Genealogical  Gleanings  in  England.     (Continued.)     Bv  Henry  F.  Waters, 

A.M .        .       ".        .        .        .        241-276 

Site  |Uvu*-<*;mjIautf  pstoricat  ami  (Bttttttogtrol  Register, 

DesiEmed  to  gather  up  and  place  in  a  permanent  form  the  scattered  and  decaying  record.-  of 
the  domestic,  civil,  literary,  religious  and  political  life  of  the  people  of  the  United  States,  and 
particularly  of  New  Fn^iacd,  i*  piibii.-hed  quarterly  by  the  New-England  Historic  Genealo- 
gical Society,  Bostou,  in  January,  April,  July  and  October.  Each  number  contains  not  less 
than  96  octavo  pages,  with  a  portrait,  usually  on  steel.  Terms  $3.00  a  year  in  advance. 
Subscriptions  should  be  sent  to  Benjamin  E.  Torelt,    Treasurer, 

18  Somerset  Street,  Boston,  Massachusetts. 
O"  Entered  at  the  Post-OSce  in  Boston,  Massachusetts,  as  second-class  mail-matter. 

Committee  cm  publication. 

ALBERT  H.  110 YT,  WILLARD  S.  ALLEN, 

FRANK  E.  BRADISH,      GEORGE  B.  KNAPP, 

JOHN  WARD  DEAN. 


Visitor. 
JOHN  WARD  DEAN. 


CONTENTS  — APRIL,   1894. 

***  Illustrations  : 

1.  Portrait  of  DAVID  CLAPP  {to  face  page  145). 

2.  Autographs  of  'Nicholas  Clapf,  Nathaniel  Clap  and  David  Clap  (page  145). 

3.  Allograph  of  David  Clapp,  Senior  (gage  148). 

4.  PYNCHON  ALMS  [page  255). 

I.    Memoir  op  David  Clapp,  Esq.    By  William  B.  Trask,  A.M 14-5 

II.    British  Officers  Serving  in   America.      (Conii.'i'/t^.)     Communicated  by 

Worthington  &  Fore1,  Esq .157 

III.  Gov.  Simon  Bp. s,Dsri:i-i:i's  Ancfsiry.    By  Isaac  J.  Greenwood,  A.M..        .        .        16S 

IV.  Rev.  Stephen  Peabod3T  and  Wife-,    By "William  C.  Todd,  A.M.      ...        171 
V.    Memoranda  by  Robert  Fosteh   of   Kingstox,   Mass.     Communicated  by 

Charles  E.Briggs>U.D 1S2 

VI.    Letters  of  Col.  Thomas  Westr-rook  and  others.     (Continued.)    Communi- 
cated by  WilUam  B.  Trask,  A.M.  184 

VII.    Snow  Genealogy.     {Contimted.)     By  Mrs.  Charles  L.  Aldji        ....        188 
VIII.    Rev.  William  Adams  of  New  York,  with  Adam-' and  Bradford  descent. 

By  Miss  Emily  IVtfder  Leavilt ISO 

IX.    Connection  of  the  Family  of  Edison,  the  Inventor,  with  Digby,  N.  S. 

By  Judged.  W.  Savory lJ'.} 

X.    Martin's  or  M  <rtha's  Vineyard  ?    By  Charles  E.  Banks,  M.D.      ...        201 
XI.    Some  Descendants  or  Rev.  John  Robinson  of  Leyden.    By  Hon.  Ariel  S. 

Thurston 201 

XII.    The  Maverick  Family.    By  Isaac  John  Greenwood,  A.M 207 

XIII.  Notes  and  Queries  : 

Notes. — Weems,  Towson,  Wallace,  Pavtie,  of  Virginia.  210;  Family  Records, 
211;  Rev.  Thomas  Davies ;  Crane  Epitaphs-;  Kin-,  212  ;  Gorham,  Graham,  213. 

Queries. — The  Parenfase  of  Dr.  John  Bishop  ;  Thomas  Hubbard,  213  ;  King, 
Hyde,  Stow?!!,  Sawyer,  214;  Bott,  May,  Neale,  Smith  and  Wiley:  Ball;  Family 
Record  of  Capt.  John  R.Russell,  215;  Haiiett;  Eones:  Mary  Valentine;  Owen 
and  Giini'tre,  216;  Births,  exaet  dates  wanted;  Cortstalitrne  Phipps;  Samuel 
Sharpe;  Asa  Adam.-:  Morton,  217;  Fuller;  Fiske  Family;  Thomas  Broad; 
Hazard;  Curbw  or  Curoe;  Dr.  Daniel  Gilbert,  218;  Joanna  Brown;  Clarke; 
Brackett,;  Mason;  Wall;  Mary  Kingsiey;  Ahijah  Adams,  210. 

Historical  Intelligence. —  Heraldry  ;  List  of  British  Officers  serving  in  America, 
219;  Suffolk  Manorial  Families^  Coll  etions  of  the  Connecticut  Historical 
Society  ;  .Sparhawk ;  Remich ;  Genealogies  in  Preparatioji,v220     .        .        .       210-220 

XIV.  Societies  and  their  Proceedings; 

New-England  Historic  Genealogical  Society,  221 :  Old  Colony  Historical  Society; 
Rhode  Island  Historical  Society,  222:  Connecticut  Historical  Society;  Maine 
Genealogical  Society,   223 ;    Maine  Historical    Society ;    Wyoming  Historical 

Society,  221 221-224 

XV.    Necrology  of  the  New-England  Historic  Genealogical  Society: 

Hon.  Charles  Henrv  Bell,  L.L.D.;  Hon.  John  James  Bell;  Gyles  Merrill,  225; 

Henry  Wheatland,  M.D.,  226;  Augustus  Rus>,  223 224-223 

XVI.     Book  Notices 229-238 

XVII.    Recent  Publications 238-240 

XVIII.    Genealogical  Gleanings  in  England.     {Continued.)     By  Henry  F.  Waters, 

A.M ".  241-276 

She  |Uu><gmjIuiui  tfustoricat  ami  6cn£aIorjkal  Jterjistcr, 

Desisned  to  gather  up  and  place  in  a  permanent  form  the  scattered  and  decaying  records  of 
the  domestic,  civil,  literary,  religious  and  political  life  of  the  people  of  the  United  States,  and 
particularly  of  New  Fngiand,  i*  published  quarterly  by  the  New-England  Historic  Genealo- 
gical Society,  Bostou,  in  January,  April,  July  and  October.  Each  number  contains  not  less 
than  96  octavo  pages,  with  a  portrait,  usually  on  steel.  Terms  $3.00  a  year  in  advance. 
Subscriptions  should  be  sent  co  Benjamin  B.  Tore.lt,    Treasurer, 

18  Somerset  Street,  Boston,  Massachusetts. 
O"  Entered  at  the  Post-OSSce  in  Boston,  Massachusetts,  as  second-class  mail-matter. 

Committee  on  ^publication. 

ALBERT  H.  HOYT,  WILI.ARD  S.  ALLEN, 

FRANK  E,  BRADISH,       GEORGE  B.  KNAPF, 

JOHN  WARD  DEAN. 


Ebt'tot. 
JOHN  WARD  DEAN. 

CONTENTS  — JULY,   1894. 

***   Illustrations  : 
1.  Portrait  of  GEORGE  CHEYNE  SHATTUCK  (to  j race page  277). 

I.    Memoib  of  George  Chf.yne  Shattcck,  M.D.    By  i?«:.  Caleb  Davis  Bridlee, 

D.D .' 277 

II.    Letters  of  Col.  Thomas  Westbroox  and  others.     {Continued.)     Conimuni- 

cated  by  William  E.  Trash.  A.M.  280 

III.  The  Bent  Family.    By  Allen  II.  Bait,  Esq 2S8 

IV.  Probate  Forks  of  Massachusetts '  .        .        236 

V.    British  Officers  Serving  in  America.      {Continued.)     Communicated  by 

Wortkington  C.  Ford, Msq ".299 

VI.    Letter  of   Jonathan  All-ex  of  Marshfield,  1722.    Commanicated  by  Mrs, 

Charles  L.  Alden 310 

VII.    Family  of  John  Savage  of  Middletowx,  Conn.    By  James  Francis  Savage, 

A.B 311 

VIII.  Three  Letters  Written  ix  Cipher  by  Gov,  John  Leverett — newly 
erofght  to  light.  Deciphered  by  William  F.  Upham,  Esq.,  and  communi- 
cated by  Hoe.  George  Sheldon 316 

IX.    Aged  Residents  cf  StoxiNgton,  Ct..  in  1893.    Compiled  by  Mrs.  Harriet  A. 

Stanton 322 

X.    Abstracts  of  the  Early  Wilis  of  Suffolk  Cocxty.  Mass.     (Continued.) 

Prepared  by  Walter  K.  Watkins,  Esq .323 

XI.    President  Lincoln's  Ancestry.    By  Hon.  Joseph  H.  Barrett,  A.M.  .       .       .       327 
XII.    Morton's  New  English  Caxaan.     By  Rev.  B.  F.  DeCosta,  D.I).      .        .        .        329 

XIII.  Matthew  Field  of  London:  his  Family  and  Arms.    By  Osgood  Field,  F.S.  A.        331 

XIV.  Inscriptions  at  Norfolk,  Va.     [Concluded.)    Communicated  by  Edward  W. 

Jfawice,  Esq 336 

XV.    Deaths  at  Stratham,   N.  H.      {Concluded.)      Communicated  by   Charles  C. 

Hardy,  Esq. 337 

XVI.    Notes  axd  Queries  : 

Notes. — Viiffinia  Genealogies,  313:  Fuller;  Francis  Family  Record,  345; 
Shaw;  AFtenaimsc*  :.-  e  i  fShays's  Rebellion;  Revolutionary  Service,  346;  Lady 
Mowlson  and  Radcl  ;  i  (  oll<  sre,  405. 

Queries.— Alden  Queries;  Markham,  347;  Shaw  and Befcl ;  Baxter  and  Tay- 
lor; Jackson;  Wood-EIderkin ;  Ellis  arid  Abrams,  348. 

Historical  Intelligence.— Williamson's  Bibliography  cf  the  State  of  Maine: 
Centenary  of  Fort  Defiance,  34S;   Butler;   Provincial  Flag  of  Pennsylvania; 
Town  Histories  in  Preparation ;  Genealogies  in  Preparation,  349      .        .        .  343-350 
XVII.    Societies  and  their  Proceedings: 

New-England  Historic  Genealogical  Society,  350 ;  Rhode  Island  Historical  So- 
ciety ;  Old  Colony  Historical  Society,  351 350-3-51 

XVIII.    Necrology  of  the  New-England  Historic  Genealogical  Society  : 

Hon.  William  Gaston,  LL.D.,  351;  Francis  G.  Pratt,  Jr.;  Samuel  Kidder, 
353;  Linus  P.  Brackets,  M.D. ;  Edwin  F.  Waters;  Henry  T.  Beckwitb,  354; 
Hon.  Horatio  G.  Jones,  D.C.L  ,  355;  Francis  O.  French,  356,  Charles  F. 
Crebore,  M.D.,  357;  Hon*  Alvah  A.  Eurraye;  Nathaniel  G.  Chapiu,  Esq.,  353; 

Randal!  G.  Barrel!,  Esq.,  360 351-360 

XIX.    Book  Notices -    .  360^370 

XX.    Recent  PrBLiCATtoNS 371 

XXI.    Deaths ..."      372 

XXII.    Genealogical  Gleanings  in  England.     (Continued.)     By  Henry  F.  Waters, 

A.M "     .  373-103 


(Tflinmittee  on  -Jpublicatiim. 

ALBERT  H.  HOYT,  WILLARD  S.  ALLEN, 

FRANK  E,  8RADI3H,      GEORGE  B.  XNAPP, 
JOHN  WARD  DEAN. 


Hotter, 
JOHN  WARD  DEAN. 

CONTENTS-OCTOBER,    1894. 


*>*  Illustrations : 
1.  Portrait  of  JOHN  CDDMAK  Uofacs page  409>. 

I.    Sketch  of  the  Life  of  Rev.  John  Codman,  DD 409 

II.    Descendants  of  Daniel  Morrison  of  Newbury,  Mass.     By  Hon.  Leonard 

A.  Morrison ;'.; 

III,  Marriages  in  GmrcESTER,  Mass..  1729 420 

IV.  Dorothy  Stanton.     By  Edicard  D.  Harris,  Esq 421 

V.     British  Officers.   Serving  in  America.      [Continued.)     Communicated  by 

Worthmgton  C.  Ford,  E<q 424 

VI.    Letters  of  Cot..  Thomas  Westrrook  and  others.     {Continued.)     Communi- 
cated by  William  B.  Trask,  A.M 136 

VII.    Burials  at  Warren  and  Baerixgton,  II.  I H2 

VIII.    The  La  kin  Family.     By  ifon.  Samuel  A.  Green,  M.D.         .        .        .        .        .        444 

IX.    Diart  of  Rev.  William  Howes  op  Chiljlark.     Communicated  by  Charles 

E.  Banks,  M.D. 412. 

X.    William  Hack  and  his  Descendants.     By  Christopher  A.  Back,  Esq.  .        453 

XI.     Letter  of  William  Stevens,  179-5 156 

XII.     Abstracts  of  the  Early  Wills  or  Suffolk   County.  Mass.      [Continued.) 

Prepared  by  Walter  K, .Watkins,  Esq. 437 

XIII.  Letter  of  Paul  Jones,  1777 461 

XIV.  Inscriptions  .u  St.  Augustine,  Florida.     [Continued.)     Communicated  by 

B.  Frank  Leeds,  Esq 461 

XV.    Notes  and  Queries: 

.Vofes.-^PropbPal  of  Marriage  by  Daniel  Hubbard, 465-  Holmes;  Dwight,466. 
Queries. — Carwithin,  466;    The  Massachusetts  Medical  Society ;   Argall  and 
Percival;  Ebenezei  Lamb,  427;  Ri  tiai-d  Wattles;    Walker-Odell ;  Mrs.  Clark 
and  her  escape  from  the  Indians;  Fuller,  460. 

Replies. — Martin's  or  Martha's  Vineyard,  46S;  Inscriptions  at  Norfolk,  Va.; 
Vincent's  London,  469. 
Historical  intelligence.— The  Campbells  of  Craignish  in  Scotland,  £69    .        .  465-469 
XVL    Societies  and  their  Proceedings  ; 

Rhode  Island  Historical  Ssdety  | 'Mifinje  Historical  Society  ....       470 

XVII.    Necrology  of  the  New-England  Historic  Gen;:  u/  gical  Society  : 

Rev.  James  H.  Means.  D.D..  i70;  Hon.  Benjamin  F.  Nbnrse,  471:  Hon.  Ste- 
phen M.  Allen,  A.M.,  472;  Rev.  Joh'n  Cordner,  LL.D.;  Bvt.  Col.  Edward  B. 
Biasland,  47:2;  Hon.  Franklin  Haven,  474;  Charles  W.  Parsons,  M.D.,  475        470-47-5 

XVIII.    Book  Notices 476-4S0 

XIX.    Recent  Publication; 4S0 

XX.    Genealogical -Gleanings  in  England.     {Continued.)      Br  Henry  F.  Waters, 

A.M •."....        481-516 

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INDEX  OF  SUBJECTS. 


Abrams,  Query,  34S 

Abstracts  of  Early  Wills  ia  Suffolk  Co.,  Mass., 

323,  457 
Adams,  Abijah,  Query,  219 
Adams,  Asa,  Querv,  217 
Adams,    Rev.    William,    of    Madison    Square 

Church,  X.  T.  City,  190 
Aged  Residents  of  Stonington,  Conn.,    20 
ADeil,  Queries.  Sir 

Ancient  Line  Feilde  of  Charlestown,  57 
Andre's  Execution,  Note,  71 
Argall  &  Percivall,  Query,  467 
Autographs,  see  Illustrations. 

Ball,  Query,  215 
Barrett,  Query,  77 
Barrington,  R.  I.,  Burials  at,  412 
B axtei ,  Query ,  343 
Beal,  Query,  348 
Bellingham,  Note,  74 
Bennett,  Query.  71 
Bent  Family,  288 

Biographical  > ketches  'see  also  Necrology)— 
I.apham,  ^\  illiam  Berry,  372 
Virgin,  William  Wirt,  104 
Winters.  William,  103 
Youns,  Elizabeth  C,  i04 
Births,  Dates  wanted,  217 
Bishop,  John.  Query,  213 
Book  Notices — 

Ancestry  and  Kindred  of  Children  of  Ed 

ward  thompkins,  235 
Appleton's  Early  Wills  Illustrating  Ances 

try  of  Harriot  Coffin,  231 
Armorial  General  de  Fiance  de  D'Hozier, 

231 
Arnold's   Vita!  Records  of  Rhode  Island, 

362 
Banta's  Banta  Genealogy.  231 
Barber-E.ro  Genealogy.  235 
Bates  and  Fletcher  Genealogical  Register, 

307 
Bent's  Bent  Family,  179 
Benin's  Joseph  Bonaparte  en  Amtrioue, 

233 
Betts's  American  Colonial  Ilistorv,  232 
Biddle's  Sketch  of  Owen  Bflddle,  235 
Boardman's  Agricultural   Bibliography  of 

Maine,  364 
Brailee's  Sermons  for  the  Church,  300 
Burhuns's  Burhans  Genealogy,  :_',c/7 
Burnhatr.'s  Burt  Genealogy,  367 
Chapman's  Chapman  Genealogy,  2:31 
Chessman's  Chessman  Geneaiostv,  170 
Christ  Church.  Cambridge,  W 
Claflin's  Bramt  ton  Sketches,  99 
ClaflinN  Personal  Recollections  of  John  G. 

Whittier,  100 
Clark's  Oliver  Cromwell,  476 
Clutterbuck's  Clutterbuck  Family,  173 
Cowles  Family  Tree,  235 
Cowley's  Memoir  of  lion.  Josiah  Gardner 

Abbott,  232 
Crane's   Descendants  of  Heary  Crane  of 

Milton.  335 
Dean's  Freeman's  Oath,  478 
DeCosta's  Story  of  Mt.  Benedict,  100 
Descendants  of  John  Bedell,  368 
Dexter's   Social  Distinctions   at    Harvard 
and  Yale,  177 


Bcok  Notices- 
Dodge's  Dodge  Genealogy,  367 
Doggett's  History  of  the  Doggett-Daggett 

Family,  234 
Drake's 'Our  Colonial  Homes,  07 
Dudley  Family,  235 
Earle's  Customs  and  Fashions  in  Oid  New 

Ed  grand,  97 
Eaton-.-  Olivestob  Hamiltons,  235 
Ellis's  Descendants  of  Rowland  Ellis  and 

Sallie  Abrams..  SOS 
First  General  Court  of  Society  of  Colonial 

Wais,  478 
Foster's  Oxford  3l~en,  229 
French's  Notes  on  Surnames  of  Francus, 

&C..231 
Fuller's  Descendants  of  Thomas  Fuller  of 

Dedham.  235 
Gallup's  Gallup  Genealogy,  231 
Granger's  Launrelot  Granger,  231 
Green's  Historical  Sketch  of  Gruton,  Mass., 

303 
Greenwood's  Maverick  Family  and  Ances- 
try of  Gov.  Simon  Bradstreet,  368 
Guild  and  Putnam's  Ancestral  Chans.  364 
Hammond's  Hammond  Genealogy,  234 
Heywood'a  History  of  Westminster,  Mass., 


ad  Reprints,  Nc 


Historical  Manusc 

3,  478 
Hooker's  Hooker  Notes,  3(58 
Huntington's    Warren-Clarke    Genealogy. 

Keith's  Ancestry  of  Benjamin  Harrison, 

231 
Kendall's  Memorial  of  Josiah  Kendall,  231 
Kimber's  Descendants  of  Richard  Ivimber, 

479 
King's  Handbook  of  Sew  York  City,  OS 
Leach's  Ancestry  of  Hon.  Levi  P.  Morton, 

Leavens's  Leavens  Name,  368 

Leavitt's  Rev.  William  Adam9  of  Madison 
Square  Church,  New  York  City,  368 

Letter  from  A.  J.  Turner  relating  to  Turner 
Genealogy,  235 

Magazine  of  Daughters  of  the  Revolution, 
301 

Mass.  Society  of  Sons  of  American  Revo- 
lution, 99 

Mayo's  King  Family.  235 

Metcalf's  Barnabas  Metcalf  and  his  De- 
scendants, 179 

More's  History  of  the  More  Family,  234 

Morris's  Felt  Genealogy,  231 

Morris's  Morris  Gene  sfogy,  179 

Morrison's  Allison  Famirv,  2-54 

Muskett's  Suffolk  Manor  ia!  Families,  353 

Nourse'a  History  of  Harvard,  Mass.,  365 

Koyes'3  Noyes  Inscription  and  Memoranda, 
235 

Ogden3  of  South  Jersey,  367 

Orcutt's  Good  Old  Dorchester.  96 

Parker's  Ainsworth  Genealogy,  3<V 

Parker's  Family  Records,  Parker-Pond- 
Peck,  285 

Patterson's  Lincoln  County  Probate  Rec- 
ords, 366 

Pedigree  of  Robert  Barclay-Aiiardice,  235 


Index  of.  Subjects. 


Book  Notices—  „      , 

Perkins's   History  of  Handel  and   Haydn 

Society,  03 
Philliinore's  Pedigree  Forms,  304 
Phillimore's  Stiff  Family,  3H7 
Philliniore's  Trotman  Family,  235 
Philliinore's  Watts  Family,  307 
Piper's  Genealogy  of  Elisha  Piper,  179 
Plamb»s  The  Plumbs,  234 
Poole's   Descendants  of  Edward  Poole  of 

Weymouth,  235 
Pbor-Poore  Family  Gathering,  90 
Raymond's  Souvenir  of  Sherburne  Centen- 
nial Celebration,  98 
Raymond's  Washington  at  Tnrrytown,  08 
Records  and  Papers  of  New  London  County 

Historical  Society,  3.'", 
Records  of  Reformed    Dutch  Churches  of 
Hackei.sack  and  Schraalenburgh,  X.  J-, 
100 
Register  of  Society  of  Colonial  Wars,  38(5 
Rich's  Rich  Genealogy,  367 
Ripley's  In-erso!ls  of  Hampshire.  23.5 
Rowland's  Life  of  George  Mason,  '...'. 
Runyan's  .Osborn  Family,  308 
Runyan's  Ruivyan  Family,  30S 
Sali.-bury's  Family-Histories   and    Genea-  j 

logies,  80 
Sanborn's   Kirkland  or   Kirtiund   Family,  i 
235  ' 

Sanford's  Sanford  Genealogy,  307 
Savary's  Savary  Genealogy,  234 
Sharpes,  The,  235  | 

Sharp's  Cftou  Court  and  Perkins  Family,  | 

231 
Sketch  of  Life  of  Caleb  Davis  Brad  lee,  00 
Smith's  Index  Library,  362 
Start's  Start  Family,  470 
Stearns's  Jlesheck  Weare,  364 
Stearns's  Stearns  Family  Record.  357 
Stock-bridge's   Memorials    of  the    Mauran  \ 

Faiuih,  234 
Stuart's  Duncan  Stuart  Family,  307 
Talcott's  Talcott  Papers,  95 
Treat's  Treat  Family  23'. 
Trowbridge's  Hoadlev  Genealogy,  307 
Twichell's  some  Old  Puritan  Love-Lttters, 

100 
Upton's  Upton  Family  Records,  307 
Wake's  Wait  Genealogy,  235 
Walker's  Diury  of  Rev.  Daniel  Wadsworth, 

478 
WestQn  Records,  233 

Whiteomb's  Wliitcomb  Memorial,  3G7  I 

Wills  of  English  Pynchons,  479 
Wilson's  U  Uson  Genealogy,  307 
Bott,  Query.  215 

Sowdoin  College,  Medical  Graduates,  Query,  70  ; 
Brackett,  Query,  219 

Bradstn-et,  Au.-estrv  of  Gov.  Simon,  MS 
Bn.le v,  Query,  75 
Bryant,  De-c>  ndants  of  John  Briant,  of  Scttu- 

a'te,  Ma>s.,  40 
British  Officers  Serving  iu  America.,  1754-1774,  : 

36,  157,  210,  299,  424 
Broad,  Thomas,  Query,  218 
Brown,  Joanna,  Query.  210 
Burials  a:  Warren  and  Harrington,  K.  I..  442      j 
Butler,  Query,  340 

Campbells  of  Craignish,  469 
Carwithen,  Query,  406 
Christmas  at  ine'DIes  of  Shoals,  Note,  73 
Clark,  Mrs.,  Escape  from  Indians,  Query,  468      j 
Clark.  Query,  2i0 
Codm'an,  Rev.  John,  D.  D.,  409 
Coffin,  Query,  ~7  I 

Connecticut  Historical  Scciety  Collections,  2-20 
Contributors  and  contributions  to  Volume 
Xl.VIIL- 
Alder,  Mrs.  Charles  L. 

Letti-r  of  Jonathan  Aldcn  of  MarshSeld  j 

(172-'},  310 
Snow  Genealogy,  71,  1S8  ' 


Contributors  and  contributions— 
Banks,  Charles  Edwaid. 

Diary  of  Rev.  William  Homes  of  Chil- 

ina'rk.  440 
Martin's  or  Martha's  Vineyard?  201 
Barrett,  Joseph  II. 

President  LincoiS's  Ancestry,  327 
Bent.  Allen  II. 

The  Bent  Family,  2SS 
Bradlee,  Caleb  Davis. 

George  Cheyne  Shattuck,  M.D.,  277 
Brines,  Charles  E. 

Memoranda  bv  Robert  Foster  of  Kings- 
ton, Mass.,  is : 
Bryant,  Percy. 

Descendants  of  John  Briant  cf  Scituate, 
Mass.,  4G 
Byington,  Ezra  Hoyt. 

Necrology  of  New-England  Historic  Gen- 
ealogical Society,  S3,  224,  351,  470 
Colburn,  Jeremiah. 

Excise  or.  Bread  in  Loston  in  1734,  20 
DeCosta,  B.  F.  ,       ^       ,      ,      . 

A    Fresh    Xote    on    the    New-Lug. and 
Primer,  64 
Morion's  New-English  Canaan,  329 

Slatthew  Field  of  London,  Mercer,  331 
Ford,  Worthington  I  hauncey.  . 

British  Officers  Serving  in  America  (L>t>4- 
1774),  3H,  U-7,299,  124 
Gordon.  George  Au  rustus. 

Ancient  Line  Feilde  of  Charlestown,  57 
Green    SamurJ  A. 

Lakin  Family,  444 
Greenwood,  Isaac  J. 

Guv.  simou  Bradstreet's  Ancestry,  16S 
Maverick  Family,  207 
Hack,  Christopher  A. 

William  Hack  and  his  Descendants,  4j3 
Hardy,  Charles  C. 

Deaths  in  Stratham,  N.  II.,  27,  337 
Harris,  Edward  Dc  ibieday. 

Dorotiiv  Star.to:',4j.'x 
James,  Edward  W. 

Inscriptions  at  Norfolk,  Va.,  17.  336 
Letter"  of  William  Stevens,  1705,  a  Sea- 
man Impressed  by  The  British,  450 
Leavitt,  Emiiy  Wilder. 

Ke%.  William  Ada. us  of  Madison  .square 
Church.  New  York  City,  190 
Leeds,  B.  F<-ank. 

Inscriptions  in  the  Old  Protestant  Grave- 
vara  at  St.  Augtixtine,  F!a.,  53,  401 
Morrison.  Leonard  Allison. 

Descendants  of  Daniel  Morrison  of  New- 
bury, Mass.,  413 
Noyes,  James  Atkins. 

Noyes  In.-x-nution  and  Memoranoa.  i* 
Perrin,  James  H'. 

Kellogg  Families  of  Colchester,  Conn., 59 
San  horn,  Victor  C. 

The  Kirtiaud  or  Kirkland  Family,  bo 
Savage,  James  Frauds . 

Family  of  John  Savage  of  Middletown, 
Conn.,  311 
Savary,  Alfred  W. 

Family  of  Edison,  the  Inventor,  199 
Sheldon.  George. 

Tiiri'e  Letters  writt'.n  by  Gov.  Leveret, 
in  1675,  110 
Stanton,  Harriet  A. 

Aged   Residents    of   Stonmgton,  Conn., 


Thurston,  Ariel  Standish. 

Some  Descendants  of  Rev.  John  Robinson 
of  Levdeh,  Holland,  204 
Todd,  William  C.  ,         ,  ,„_.„       .  ., 

Lev.  btephen  Peaoody  and  Wife,  of  At- 
kinson, N.  H..  171 
Trask,  William  I'd.-:--.-. 

lett-rs  of  Col.  Thomas  Westbrook  and 

Cnhers,  31.1-1.  JeO,  436 
Memoir  of  David  Clapp,  145 


Index  of  Subjects. 


Contributors  and  contributions — 
Washington,  Col.  Thornton  A. 

The~8  words  of  Washington,  21 
Waters.  Henry  F. 

Genealogical  Gleanings  in  England,  105, 
241,  373,  481 
Watkins,  Waiter  K. 

Abstracts  of  Early  Wills  in  Suffolk  Co., 
Mass.,  323,  457 
Woodbury,  Charles  Levi. 

Meuipir  of  Hon.  Levi  Woodbury,  LL.D.,  3 
Cook,  Querv,  78 
Crane,  Epitaphs,  Note,  212 
Curow  or  Guroe,  Query,  2la 

Davies,  Thomas,  Note,  212 
Day,  Query,  78 

Deaths  in  Siiatham,  X.  II.,  27,  337 
Denison  Fapiilj  ,  Souvenir  Spoon  of,  SO 
Descendants  of  Daniel  Morrison  of  Newbury , 

413 
Descendants  of  John  Briant  of  Scituate,  Mass., 

46 
Descendants  of  Rev.  John  Robinson  of  Leydea, 

Holland,  204 
Dewey,  Query,  78 
Diary  of  Rev.  William  Holmes  of  Chilmark, 

446 
Dickinson,  Querv,  78 
Dorothv  Stun- on,  4.1 
Dndley  Family  Relies,  80 
Dwiglit,  Note,  4-.,0 

Edison,  tire  Inventor.  Connection  of  Family 
with  Digby,  N.  S.,  109 

Eliot,  Apo.-sle,  i)i^.;jverv  of  Birthplace  of,  So 

Ellis,  Querv,  3<S 

Errata,  104,  240,  372,  400,  480 

Excise  on  Bread  in  Boston  in  1734,  20 

Family  of  John  Savage  of  Middletown,  Conu., 

311 
Family  Records,  Note.  211 
Field,  Matthew  of  London.  Mercer,  331 
Fiske  Family,  Query,  218 
Foote,  Correction,  81 
Fort  Defiance,  Centenary  of,  346 
Foster,  Memoranda  by  Robert,  of  Kingston, 

Mass.,  182 
Francis  Family  Record,  Note,  315 
Fuller,  Note,  34S 
Fuller,  Query,  21S,  408 

Gannett,  Query,  75 

Genealogical  Gieaaings  in  England,  105,  241, 
373,  481 
Genealogies — 

Adams,  190 

Bent,  2t8 

Bradford,  196 

Briant,  4(5 

Hack.  453 

Kellogg,  5J 

Kirtland  or  Kirkiand,  65 

Morrison,  IV', 

Savage,  311 

Snow,  71.  168 
Genealogies  in  Preparation— 

Bateh.81 

Boardman,  220 

Buzzed,  H29 

Cowles,  226 

Dodge,  220 

Fairweatheti  si 

Hamblen,  81 

Harriman,  81 

Hitchcock,  81 

Hubbard,  .'.50 

Lamborn,  220 

Lanman,  210 
Gilbert,  Daniel.  Query,218 
Gilmore,  Query-,  al6 
Gloucester,  Marriages  in  (1729),  420 
Gorham,  Note,  2ia 


i  Hack,  William  and  his  Descendants,  433 
!  Hallett-Fones,  Query,  210 
i  Hnnford,  Esther,  ttepiy,  79 
I  Hazard,  Querv,  2ia 

Heraldry,  219 ' 

Hibbins,  Note,  74 
J  Historical  Intelligence,  79,  219,348,  469 
;  Historical  Societies,  Proceedings  of— 

Mai'ne,'82,  2:47470 
j         Maine  Genealogical,  223 

NewEngland    Historic    Genealogical,    81, 

New  Haven  Colony,  83 
j  Old  Color.v.  S2,  222,351 

Rhode  Island.  83,  222,  351,  470 

Wyoming  Historical  and  Genealogical,  224 

i  Holmes,  Note.  400 

!  Hubbard,  Thomas,  Query,  213 

;  Hyde,  Query,  214 

[  illustrations- 
No  yes  Arms.  10 
j         Noyes  Inscription,  18 

Plat  of  the  Ancient  Line  Feilde  of  Charles- 
town,  56 

Power's  Hast  of  Levi  Woodbury,  9 
j          Pynchon  Arms,  255 
I     Autographs: 
!         Briant,  John,  4',*) 
!         Clap,  David.  145 

Clap,  Nathaniel,  145 
!         Oiapp,  I -avid    14a,  146 

Clapp,  Kitfrblaa,  MG 

Shattuok,  lie....  C,  277 
!      Portraits: 
j         Clapp,  David,  145 
;         Codman,  John,  409 

Shattuok,  George  Cheyne.  277 
j     Tabular  Pedigrees : 

Bott,  215 
j         Browne,  209 

May,  215 

Meredith,  332 
j         Mowlson,  4..-J 

Pinchon, 200 

Stephen,  257 
Indian  Affairs  in  Maine,  31,  184,  280.  436 
1  Ingersoll,  Query,  75 
I  Inscriptions  at  Norfolk,  Va.,  17,  336,  469 
i  Inscriptions  in   Mid  Frotestant  Graveyard  at 
St.  Augustine,  1  ia.,  53,  461 

I  Jackson,  Query,  348 

'  Jaques,  Richard,  Reply,  79 

Kellogg,  Correction,  81 
1  Kflh.-'.  Querv,  78 

Kellogg  Families  of  Colchester,  Conn.,  50 
I  King,  Note, -212 
j  King,  Querv,  214 
j  Kingsley,  Mary,  Query,  219 
1  Kirtland  or  Kirkiand  Family,  00 

j  Lakin  Family,  444 
!  Lamb,  Query,  467 
Letter  of  William  Stevens,  1705,  a  Seaman  Im- 
pressed l'v  the  British,  450 
Letters— 

Aideti,  Jonathan,  310 

Bonn,  John  H.,  331 

Browning,  Charles  II.,  341 

Canedy,  William,  l?n 

Dumnierj  William,  35,  184,  160 

Hubbard,  Daniel,  485 

Jones,  Baa!,  401 

Leverett,  John,  310-321 

Minot,  John,  31 

Mountfon,  Edmund,  185 
-Pynchon,  John,  317 
1  Sanders,  Thomas.  185 

i         Stacev,  SaiRiiel,  33 

Stevens,  William-,  456 
I         Tucker, H.  W.,320 


Index  of  Subjects. 


Letters— 

Upham,  William  P.,  31S 

Washington,  J.  B.,. 25 

Washington,  Samuel  T.,  S3 

Wenimgenit,  280 

West  brook,  Thomas,  35,  185 

WiHard,  J..  3-1 
Letters  of  Co!.  Thomas  Westbrook  and  Others, 

31,  134,  280,  436 
Letters  written  by  Gov.  Leverett  in  1075,  316 
Lincoln,  Ancestry  of  President,  327 
Lincoln  County  Probate  Records,  80 
Longbottom,  Query,  77 
Lew,  Query,  75 

Maine,  BibRograpfc?  of,  348 

Maine,  Iudian  Af'iirs  in,  31,  184,  280,  136 

Markharo,  Queries.  347 

Marriages  in  Gloucester,  Mass.,  (1729),  420 

Marshall's  Genealogist's  Guide,  79 

Martin's  or  Martha's  Vineyard?  201,  403 

Mason,  Querv.  2Ht 

Mass.  Medica!  -Society,  Query,  407 

Maverick  Family,  20,7 

May,  Query,  215 

Memoirs — 

Clapp,  David,  145 

Codman,  Johta.  400 

Shattuck,  George  Cheyne,  277 

Woodbury,  Levi,  9 
Memoranda   b/    Robert    Foster  of   Kingston, 

Mass.,  182     ' 
Miller,  Query,  78 
Morton,  Query,  217 
Morton's  New  English  Caiman,  329 
Muster  Rolls,  230-288,  4:;G~441 

Neat,  Query,  215 

Necrology  of  the  New-England  Historic  Genea- 
logical Society— 

Allen,  Stephen  Merrill,  472 

Anderson,  John  Farwell,  83 

Armstrong,  Samuel  Turell,  S3 

Avery,  Abraham,  >7 

Avery,  George  Whitfield,  80 

Beckwith,  Henry  Truman,  S54 

Bell,  Charh-s  Henry,  225 

Bell,  John  James,  225 

Billings  Frederick,  88 

Blake,  Charles  Morris,  88 

Blasland,  Ed*mrd  B.,  473 

Brockett,  Linus  Pierpont,  35-1 

Bun  age.  Alvah  An  srust  us,  353 

Burred,  Randall  Gardner,  ICO 

Chopin,  Nathaniel  Gates,  35-3 

Colburn,  Jeremiah,  88 

Cordner,  John,  473 

Crehore,  Chaiies  Frederic,  357 

Fowler,  Samuel  Page,  8-8 

French,  Francis  Ormond,  350 

Gaston,  William,  351 

Haven,  Franklin,  474 

Healy,  John  Plumer,  88 

Jones.  Horatio  Gates,  355 

Kidder,  -Samuel,  353 

Lambert,  Thomas  Kicker,  89 

Means,  James  Howard,  470 

Merrill,  G vies,  225 

Millet,  Asa.  Sfi 

Montague.  William  Henry,  89 

Morse,  Leopold,  ^o 

Nason,  Elias,  s'.i 

Nour.-e,  Benjamin  Franklin,  471 

Parkrr.au,  Francis,  8! 

Parsons,  Charles  William,  475 

Peabody,  Andrew  Preston,  64 

Peck,  Ira  Ballon,  89 

Pratt,  Francis  Greenleaf,  353 

Rindge.  Samuel  Laker,  S3 

Buss,  Augustus  22  s 

Safford,  Nathaniel  Foster,  89 

Tnrbox.  Increase  Niles,  89 

Water.-,  Edwin  Forbes,  .154 

Weld,  William  Fletcher,  89 


Necrology— 

Wheatland,  Henry,  2N» 

Whitney,  Henry  Austin,  83 

Woodman,  Cyriis,  89 
New-England  Primer,  A  Fresh  .Vote  on,  04 
Norfolk,  Va.,  Inscriptions  at,  17.  330,  \£*3 
Notes  and  Qu<  ries,  73,  2 10.  343,  405 
Noyes  Inscription  and  .Memoranda,  18 

Obituary  Notices,  see  Necrology  end  Biograph- 
ical Sketches. 
Old*.  Query,  77 
Owen,  Query,  210 

Paine,  Query,  70 
Payne,  Note,  210 
Peabody,  Rev.  Stephen  and  Wife,  of  Atkinson, 

N.  H.',  171 
Peyton,  Replv,  79 
Phillips,  Query,  77 
Phipps,  Constantine,  Query,  217 
Portraits,  see  Illustrations. 
Probate  Forms  of  Massachusetts,  206 
Proposal  of  Marriage  bv  Daniel  Hubbard,  Note, 

405 
Provincial  Flag  of  Pennsylvania,  Query,  349 
Pruden,  Query,  77 

Queries,  74,  213,  347,  4G6 

Read.  John,  Query,  77 

Recent  Publications,  101,  238,  371,450 

Remick,  Note,  220 

Replies,  78,  46-5 

Revolutionary  Service,  Note,  316 

Robinson,  Some  Descendants  of  Rev.  John,  of 

Leyden,  Holland,  204 
Rolfe,  Reply,  79 
Russell,  Family  Record  of  John  R.,  Query,  215 

St.  Augustine,  Fla.,  Inscriptions  in  Old  Protes- 
tant Graveyard,  53 

Sawyer,  Query,  214 

Sliarpe.  Samuel,  Query.  21.7 
|  Shaw,  Note,  346 
j  Shaw,  Query,  3JS 

I  Shays's  Rebellion,  Reminiscence  of.  Note,  340 
I  Sherman,  Query,  74 
I  Smith,  Querv,  70,  215 
\  Snow  GenealoL'v,  71,  188 
!  Soldiers  in  Philip's  War,  Reply,  78 
j  Soule,  Querv,  74 

Sparhawk,  Note,  220 

Spencer,  Query,  78 

Stanton.  Dorothy.  421 

Stiff,  Elias,  Reply,  78 

Stonington,  Conn.,  Aged  Residents  of,  322 

Stowelf,  Querv,  214 

Stratham,  N.  II.,  Deaths  in,  27,  337 

Suffolk  Manorial  Families,  220 

Suffolk  Wilis,  abstracts  of,  3:5,  457 

Swords  of  Washington,  21 

Tabular  Pedigrees,  see  Illustrations. 
Tavlor,  Query.  343 

Town  History  in  preparation,  .Dtenieid,  Ma=s., 

349 
Towson,  Note,  210 

Valentine,  Mary,  Query,  210 
Vincent's  London,  Reply,  409 
Virginia  Genealogies  and  Charles  II.  Browning, 
j      Note,  343 

I  Wadieigh,  Quer> ,  75 

i  WalkerOdell,  Query,  468 

|  Wall,  Querv,  219 

|  Wallace,  Note,  210 

\  Warren,  R.  I..  Burials  at,  442 

Waters's  Gene.dogicai  Gleanings  in  England, 
j      105,  241,373,  4?  i— 

Abbott,  John  (1003),  275 
I         Argall,  Samuel  ( 11.25),  483 
I         Arnold,  Richard  (1644),  37-4 


Index  of  Subjects. 


Waters'?  Qieaeaiogical  Gleanings  iu  England— 
Ashrieid,  Patience  (1708),  400 
Aylett,  Nicholas  (1618),  396 
Ball.  Anne  (1654),  273 
Barnardj-ton,  XaihunM  (1653),  S79 
Barrett,  Elizabeth  (1594),  515 
Beamis,  John  (1604),  495 
Bell,  Edward  (1576),  247 
Bendish,  Mary  (1693),  275 
Bennett,  Richard  (1676),  114 
Benson,  George  (1632),  129 
Berrisford,  Richard  (1644),  374 
Biand,  Elizabeth  (15(93),  lil 
John  (16&0),  113 
Thomas  (1618),  111 
(1074),  113 
(1700),  114 
Blande,  John  (1632),  J12 

William  (1506;,  111 
Bovlson,  Thomas  (1648),  105 
Boylsto-a,  Edward  (1675),  107 
Thomas  (J6C8),  106 
(1669),  107 
Bieare,  Jaue  (1665).  106 
Breedon,  Jane  (1632),  12S 

Thor  as  (1689),  127 
Zacheus  (lfx-6),  127 
Brett,  Thomas  (1616),251 
Browne,  John  (1596),  482 
Browne'!,  Johane    L590),  103 
Brumpstead,  Ann  (1058),  127 
Brumpsted,  Thomas  (1690),  127 
Buliockc,  Edward  (1621),  129 
Burpell..  He-ter  ( 1664),  273 
Campe,  John  (1C  ■■')),  399 
Carter,  John  (1650),  133 
Charleton,  Pbillippa  (1677),  378 
Cohuan,  John  (1505),  513 
Conyers,  John  (lo04),  393 
Corh.'im,  John  (15-6),  133     ' 
Dalyber,  Robert  (1633),  I2S 
Davey,  Margaret  (1614),  138 
Davie,  Isabell  (1607),  110 
John  (1576),  137 
John  (167ej>,  111 
(172.-),  141 
Lawrence  (10-.'l),  1-3-3 
William  (1707),  141 
Davie3,  Dorothi-  (1634),  253 
Davy,  John  (1603),  141 

Robert  (1j70),  137 
Davye,  Gilbert  (1585),  138 

John  (1655),  139 
Donghtie,  Francis  (16,34),  119 
Dyre,  William  (1690),  143 
Eliot,  Edward  flV.'O),  300 

James  (1623),  398 
Eliote,  John  (1612),  305 
Eliott,  John  (1606),  394 
Elliot,  Roger  (16u3),  305 
Elliott,  Austin  (Hju.ji,  394 
Bennett  (1622),  306 
Nicholas  (1613),  396 
Fiiiilep  (1501),  403 
Ellyot,  George  (i.YH),  336 
Ellyott,  Thomas  i".557),  339 
Elyot,  George,  (Wl),  305 
Thomas  (1551),  387 
Elyott,  John  (1557).  390 
Eve-ed,  R.-iife  (15-39),  248 
Eyl'.eot,  Hewgl.  (1613),  390 
Eawne,  Dorothv  (1666),  264 

Luke  (1666).  263 
Eryer,  Richard  (1687),  203 
Fulalore,  Margaret  (1629),  121 
Goodwyn,  IV  ier  (166i),  385 
Grave,  Elizabeth  (1587),  409 
Grene,  Timmu>  (1537),  38.5 
Gurdon,  Robert  (1570),  516 
Hacker,  John  (1054),  274 
Hail,  John  (1614),  373 
(1646),  374 
William  (1506;,  108 
Hamilton,  Andrew  (1741),  406 


Waters's  Genealogical  Gleanings  in  England- 
Hampton,  Lawrence  (lo;7),  272 
Hiirinan,  William  (1592),  108 
Hart,  Thomas  (1701),  466 
Haynes,  George  (1584),  389 

John  (1551),  3S8 
Herdson.  Anne  (1668),  136 
Ilewett,  Thomas  (1576).  126 
Hext,  Edward  (1742),  403 
Kighlord,  Katherine  (164S),  132 
Ineram,  Mary  (1614),  131 

RandolBh  (1641),  131 
Kave,  Matthew  (1612),  503 
Lancaster,  Robert  (16>5),5C0 
Lane,  Edmond  (1604), 481 
Lucas,  Bridget  (1657),  276 
Maior.  Jerman  (lu61).  383 
Moretoft,  Valentine  (1641),  332 
Morgan,  Elizabeth  (1633),  267 

John  (1621),  267 
Morlev,  Robert  (16nj),  301 
Morris,  Judith  (1645),  113 

Mary  (1653),  276 
Myllett,  John  (1004),  392 
Newell,  Jane  (1657),  134 
Newport,  Christofer  (1618),  271 

Christopher  (1610),  270 
Northcote,  Katherine  (16S5),495 
Oldfield,  John  (1657),  265 
Owfeild,  Katherine  (1664),  265 

Samuel  (1644),  265 
Parker,  John  (1627),  508 
Robert  (1625).  507 
Thomas  (1325),  508 
Parkins,  Elizabeth  r  165:;),  511 
Pettus,  John  (1614),  504 

Thomas  (1613),  505 
Piggott,  John  (1639),  334 
Pir.chion,  Henry  (1630),  253 
Pinchon,  Edward  (1627),  252 
John  (157-(),246 
(1610),  250 
Mary  (1651),  254 
Rose  ( 1599},  249 
William  (1612),  251 
Pole,  An  tie  (1713),  493 

Carolu-  (1731),  493 
Dorothv  (1651),  491 
Jane  (1P54),  492 
John  (170.3),  492 
William  (1636),  490 
(1742),  494 
Poole,  William  (15>-7),  439 
Pordage,  Joshua  (1GJ1),  3-84 
Power,  Anne  (1638),  110 

Anthony  ('633),  109 
Stephen  (16  5),  110 
Pratt,  John  (1731),  500 
Priaulx,  Peter  (16?6).  274 
Pynchou,  John  (1654).  254 
Nichas  (1.33..,  211 
William  (1662),  255 
Pynchvn,  V.'vllvam  (1552),  242 
Radcliffe,  Anthony  (162.3),  266 
Randell,  Margaret  (1646).  110 
Randolph,  Barnard  (1533),  431 
(1628),  484 
Edmond  (1654),  486 
Edward  (1703),  487 
John  (1628),  435 
Thomas  (1661),  437 
William  (1647),  435 
Bandoii-he,  Harbert  (1604),  433 
Isabell  (15.^5),  482 
Read,  William  (1656),  381 
Reede,  Th..ma>  (1'57),  382 
Rich,  Nathaniel  (10.:i);,267 
Rous.  Anthonv  (1555),  515 
St.  Nlchoi.K,  'iiim.thy  (1606),  119 
Salter,  George  (1651).  128 
Saltoastall,  Barnard  (1632),  510 
Dorothy  (1658),  511 
Jane  (16 W),  666 
John  (1500),  500 


In de x  of  Su  hje cts. 


Waters'a  Genealogical  Gleanings  in  Eug 
JMtltoiistall— 

Marj  (1748),  513 
Peter  (1659),  511 
Richard  (iooi),50l 
(10,19),  505 
(1667),  611 
(1688),  512 
Samuel  (1617),504 
Susan  (1012),502 
Scott,  John  (hv2),  379 
Scrogges,  Edward  (1622);  124 
'  Franci-'  (4563),  122 
John  (1593),  123 


Th,.U; 


,1     S'J), 


l.'O 


Scrogss,  Am 
Seabngbt,  M 
SewaU,  Willi 
Sidey,  Willi: 

Simpson,  An 

m 

Pe 

Sanson.  Mar 
Smith,  Eliza 
Southcot,  lh 
Southcott,  T 

Spencer,  Ali 

Stanley,  Tho 
Tatton,  Will 
Taylor,  Join: 
Thome,  Wil 
Tuttie,  Johii  (1057),  143 
Tutty,  William  (1610),  142 
Ward,  Bennett  (1742),  496 
Webb.Benett  (1004),  392 
Weston,  Jerome  (1604),  250 
Whetcombe,  John  (159>),  40S 
Wjiltcombe,  Symon  (1637),  403 
"White,  Edmund  (io:',2),  HS5 
(1074),  136 
Wilkinson,  Henry  (1646),  117 
Wilson,  Jane  (loe>7),  248 
Mary  (1662),  f36 
Robert  (163:0,  129 
Rowland  (1049),  133 
(165*),  133 
Thomas  fK>-'),  248 
Wraxhall,  Abraham  (1057),  374 


Wattles,  Richr.rd.  Querv,  468 
Weems.  Note,  210 

Welsh  Tract,  Settlement  of,  Querv,  77 
Wiley.  Query,  215 
"Williams,  Query,  77 

Wills,  Administrations  and  Abstracts- 
See  also  Waters's  Gleanings. 

Ballantyne,  William  (1667),  320 

Bragg,  Jonathan  (4669),  324 

Bran,  George  (1669),  325 

Brown,  Hugh  (1670),  325 

drivers,  Abraham  (1609),  325 

Copp,  William  (1062),  459 

Craze,  Ricliard  (1670),  400 

Crocum,  Francis  (1669),  324 

Davenport.  John  (1070),  458 

Doble,  Tobias  (1669),  325 

Dunckle,  Eluathan  (1070),  459 

Fisher,  Anthony  (1670),  459 

Fi.iiiv,  John  (1670),  409 

rrench,  Jacob  (1669),  323 

Gay,  Hezekiah  (1669),  324 

Grose,  Edmund  (1670),  459 

Gross,  Clement  (1669),  326 

Hawkins-  James  (1670),  460 

Holdsworth,  Joseph  (H370),  45S 

Jonson,  Marv  (1669),  32o 

Kirtland.  John  (1616),  07 

Matthews,  John  (1670),  459 

Mav,  John  (1070),  400 

Mires,  Richard  (1670),  325 

Millard,  Thomas  (1070),  326 

Minot,  John  (1669),  325 

Moor,  Joseph  (1070),  45S 

Pepper,  John  (1070;,  45S 

Phillips,  Nicholas  (1670),  400 

Savel,  William  (1009),  323 

Wardell.  William  (1070),  45S 

Willi   ,  .Michael  (10*19),  324 

Wood,  Nicholas  (1070),  457 

Woodward,  William  (1669),  323 

Woody,  John  and  Isaac  (1670),  327 
Wood-Eiaerkiu,  Query,  34j 


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MEMOIE  OF  HON.  LEVI  WOODBURY,  LL.D. 

By  Hon.  Chaki.es  Levi  Woodbury,  of  Boston. 

It  was  observed  by  your  Committee  on  Publication  that  although 
a  memoir  of  Gov.  Woodbury  of  New  Hampshire  had  been  published 
in  the  first  volume  of  their  Memorial  Biographies,  yet  that  the 
volumes  of  the  REGISTER  contained  uo  adequate  notice,  and  the 
writer  was  requested  to  supply  a  brief  capitulation  of  this  gentle- 
man's career.  Besides  the  memoir  above  referred  to,  three  volumes 
of  the  writings,  speeches,  lectures  and  judicial  opinions  of  Levi 
Woodbury  were  published  immediately  after  his  death.  The  con- 
gressional debates  in  which  he  participated,  the  Reports1  of  the 
United  States  Supreme  Court,  Woodbury  and  Minot's  Reports  of 
the  Circuit  Court,  and  the  documents  submitted  by  the  Treasury 
Department  to  Congress,  will  supply  much  not  included  in  these 
volumes.      His  correspondence  has  not  been  edited. 

Levi  Woodbury  was  born  in  Francestown.  New  Hampshire,  Dec. 
2,  1789.  His  father,  the  Hon.  Peter  Woodbury,  in  youth  had  set- 
tled there,  where  he  became  a  successful  merchant  and  farmer.  For 
thirty  years  he  was  an  active  magistrate,  justice  of  the  peace  and 
quorum  for  the  county,  which  he  also  several  times  represented  in 
the  senate.  The  family  were  descendants  of  John  Woodbury,  who 
settled  at  Cape  Ann,  1(523-4,  and  was  one  of  "the  Old  Planters" 
who  settled  Salem,  1626-7,  before  the  Bay  Charter  was  granted. 
Under  the  charter  government  Woodbury  was  elected  a  freeman 
of  the  Corporation,  and  several  times  a  deputy  of  the  General  Court. 
He  also  held  many  other  public  employments  until  his  death  in  1 641. 
He  was  one  of  the"  five  Old  Planters  to  whom  1000  acres  was  granted 
in  that  part  of  Salem  afterward*  incorporated  as  Beverly,  where  he 
and  his  brother  William  planted  and  their  descendants  multiplied. 

The  descent  of  Mr.  Woodbury  in  the  male  line  is  briefly:  John1 
Woodbury;  his  youngest  sou  Peter,2  bapt.  19.  2.  1640;  his  son 
vol.  XLViir.  2 


10  Levi  Woodbury.  [Jan. 

Joslah,3  bora  June  15,  1682  ;  his  son  Josiah,-8  bora  Feb.  16,  1708  ; 
his  son  Peter,5  bora  March  28,  1738  ;  his  son  Peter,6  born  Jan.  17, 
1767,  who  married  Mary  "Woodbury.  These  last  were  the  parents 
of  Levi.7  Mary,  his  mother,  was  descended  from  Peter,'  through  his 
son  Peter,3  born  in  1661,  whose  son  Peter,4  born  1705,  was  father 
of  James,6  born  1738,  who  was  father  of  Mary.  James  Woodbury, 
grandfather  of  Levi,  had  served  in  the  French  war  at  Lake  George, 
and  was  also  one  of  the  provincial  rangers  who  were  with  Wolfe 
the  next  year  at  the  capture  of  Quebec.  Each  grandfather  was 
born  in  Beverly,  and  James  settled  in  Xarraganset  No.  4  (Amherst), 
in  1765  or  '6,  on  land  given  him  by  his  father  in  the  part  now  Mt. 
Vernon. 

As  Peter  signed  a  petition  in  1770  relative  to  town  affairs  in 
Amherst,  he  was  already  living  there.  lie  was  an  ardent  rebel, 
and  was  a  member  of  Capt.  Taylor's  company  that  marched  from 
Amherst  in  Dec.  17  75,  to  Winter  Hill.  His  name  is  fifth  on  the 
list  of  those  in  Amherst  who  in  April,  1776,  pledged  to  resist  with 
arms  and  fortune  the  encroachments  of  the  13ritish  parliament  on 
American  liberty.  He  was  of  the  legislature  who  formed  the  first 
Constitution  of  Xew  Hampshire  in  the  name  of  the  people,  and  was 
frequently  on  the  Committee  of  Public  Safety.  Two  of  his  sons, 
Levi  and  Jessie,  served  in  the  army  and  afloat  under  the  flag,  and 
the  youngest,  Peter,  enlisted  at  the  age  of  thirteen  years,  but  his 
father  stopped  it. 

James  Woodbury  was  a  signer  in  1776  of  the  pledge  to  resist 
with  arms,  also  was  on  committees  and  other  public  service  during 
the  revolution.  The  blood  of  other  families  of  the  settlers  of  Essex 
County  before  1641,  through  the  wives  of  his  ancestors,  floAved  in 
his  veins  ;  such  as  Richard  and  William  Dodge,  Conant,  William 
Woodbury,  Herrick,  Batchelders,  Osmond  Trask,  Goodells,  &c, 
also  the  Ipswich  families  of  Perkins,  Rogers,  Wade  and  Bumharn. 
Many  also  of  respected  individuals  in  Massachusetts,  Maine  and 
New  Hampshire  were  allied  through  their  descent  from  females  of 
the  Woodbury  stock.  These  facts  show  that  Mr.  Woodbury  was 
thoroughly  of  that  early  Xew  England  stock  whose  memory  the 
Register  seeks  to  preserve. 

The  subject  of  this  notice  was  the  second  of  ten  children  born  to 
his  parents,  and  was  named  after  his  uncle  Levi,  who  had  been 
captured  in  the  privateer  Essex,  and  died  in  Dartmoor  prison  in 
England  near  the  close  of  the  revolutionary  war.  He  entered 
Dartmouth  College,  was  graduated  with  distinction  in  1800,  and 
entered  on  the  study  of  law,  winch  he  pursued  under  Judge  Gould 
at  Litchfield,  Conn.,  Hon.  Samuel  Dana  at  Boston,  and  Hon.  Jere- 
miah Smith  at  Exeter,  N.  H.  Whilst  a  student  he  had  acquired 
considerable  local  celebrity  by  speeches  and  resolutious"at  war  meet- 
ings in  his  native  county,  and  September,  1812,  he  commenced  the 
practice  of  law  at  Francestown  with  industry  and  met  with  success. 


1894.]  ,  Levi  Woodbury.  11 

In  1817  he  was  elected  clerk  of  the  Senate,  and  became  one  of  the 
trustees  under  the  new  act  as  to  Dartmouth  College.  In  course  of 
the  same  year  he  was  appointed  one  of  the  associate  justices  of  the 
Supreme  Court  of  New  Hampshire.  In  conjunction  with  Chief 
Justice  Richardson  he  prepared  the  first  three,  volumes  of  the  Report 
of  that  state. 

In  1819  he  married  Miss  Elizabeth^.  Clapp,  the  daughter  of  the 
Hon.  Asa  Clapp  of  Portland,  Maine,  and  removed  his  residence  to 
Portsmouth,  the  old  provincial  capital  of  the  state.  In  1822  he 
was  nominated  for  governor,  and  elected, — the  vote  in  the  town  of 
his  residence  being  Levi  Woodbury  900,  all  others  34.  In  June 
he  was  inaugurated  as  governor.  In  his  inaugural  he  says,  "  Among 
the  most  sacred  of  those  principles  my  education  and  political  faith 
have  always  led  me  to  rank  the  general  diffusion  of  knowledge, 
equality  of  rights,  liberty  of  conscience,  and  a  strict  accountability 
of  all  public  servants."  These  objects  he  pursued  through  his  whole 
public  career.  In  1823  the  New  Hampshire  Historical  Society  was 
formed  with  Gov.  Plainer  as  president  and  Mr.  Woodbury  vice 
president.  Next  year  he  became  its  president,  and  always  took  a 
great  interest  in  its  objects.  In  1824  he  was  defeated  for  governor, 
and  returned  to  his  profession.  In  1825  he  was  elected  from  Ports- 
mouth to  the  legislature,  which  elected  him  speaker,  and  before  the 
close  of  its  session  he  was  elected  to  the  United  States  Senate. 
His  industry  and  capacity  shown  in  committees  and  in  debate  soon 
placed  him  among  the  most  vigorous  of  the  Democratic  cohort.  On 
his  inauguration  Gen.  Jackson  tendered  him  the  mission  to  Spain, 
which  he  declined.  He  declined  being  a  candidate  for  re-election, 
but  a  few  days  after  the  close  of  his  term  he  was  elected  to  the 
state  senate.  Gen.  Jackson  re-organized  his  cabinet  in  May,  1831, 
and  invited  Mr.  Woodbury  lo  take  the  portfolio  of  the  navy  depart- 
ment, which  he  accepted,  and  entered  on  its  duties.  Having  served 
some  years  on  the  naval  committee,  Mr.  Woodbury  was  not  unpre- 
pared lor  the  duties  of  the  office.  He  despatched  a  frigate  to  chas- 
tise the  Malays  at  Quallah  Buttoo  who  had  plundered  a  Salem  ship  ; 
made  a  valuable  report  on  the  live  oak  supply  of  the  country,  in- 
troduced the  commuting  of  the  spirit  ration  of  the  sailors  for  money, 
re-organized  the  method  of  alloting  service  among  the  officers,  re- 
vised the  Navy  regulations,  and  restrained  the  power  of  subordinate 
officers  to  inflict  punishment  on  sailors.  He  visited  personally  all 
the  navy  yards  of  the  United  States,  and  despatched  a  sloop-of-war 
to  carry  Mr.  Roberts,  the  agent,  to  conclude  commercial  treaties 
with  Siam  and  Muscat.  He  also  sent  a  fleet  to  Charleston  to  sus- 
tain the  custom  authorities  against  the  nullifying  threats  of  re- 
sistance by  some  sugar  importers,  and  provided  a  ship-of-the-linc 
to  support  our  minister.  Mr.  Nelson,  in  the  Bay  of  Naples*  in  en- 
forcing demands  for  indemnity  on  the  Neapolitan  government.  His 
plans  for  the  gradual  improvement  of  the  navy  and  for  better  ad- 
ministration of  its  affairs  were  much  commended. 


12  ^  Levi  Woodbury.  [Jan. 

The  petition  of  the  United  States  Bank  for  a  re-eharter,  and  the 
withdrawal  of  the  treasury  deposits,  raised  an  intense  political  ex- 
citement. The  nomination  of  Mr.  Taney  as  Secretary  of  the  Treas- 
ury was  rejected  by  the  Senate.  Mr.  Woodbury  then  was  nomi- 
nated fur  that  post,  and  confirmed  without  objection  ;  he  held  the 
position  during  the  remainder  of  Gen.  Jackson's  term,  and  haying 
been  re-appointed  by  Mr.  Van  Buren,  held  it  during  his  adminis- 
tration. During  all  this  time  political  controversy  focused  on  the 
fiscal  policy  of  the  United  States,  and  the  Secretary  was  conse- 
quently the  objective  point  of  attack  from  the  opponents  of  the  ad- 
ministration. Any  history  of  the  controversy  is  too  long  for  this 
article,  but  it.  ended  with  a  final  divorce  of  the  government  from 
dependence  on  the  banks  for  keeping  its  revenues,  and  the  enact- 
ment of  the  sub-treasury  system.  Before  the  end  of  Gen.  Jackson's 
term  Mr.  Woodbury  had  the  satisfaction  of  seeing  the  national  debt 
paid  in  full.  The  'specie  circular''  and  "the  gold  bill"  show  Ids 
efforts  to  strengthen  the  specie  basis  of  the  country.  The  distribu- 
tion of  the  surplus  revenue  among  the  states  contrary  to  his  remon- 
strance, brought  on  the  suspension  of  the  banks,  in  1837.  Deprived 
of  the  revenue  in  their  hands,  and  forbidden  by  law  to  use  the 
depreciated  paper  of  the  banks,  the  public  credit  was  in  danger,  but 
under  his  guidance  the  treasury  weathered  the  storm.  "  The  public 
credit  was  maintained  without  the  aid,  almost  in  defiance  of  the 
moneyed  classes  "  (R.  Rantoul,  Jr.) .  The  struggle  between  fallacies 
and  truth  had  logically  led  to  the  first  sub-treasury  law,  whereby  the 
government  kept  in  its  own  possession  the  revenues  it  collected,  and 
disbursed  from  its  own  treasury.  It  was  re-enacted  in  1846  as  the 
Independent  Treasury,  and  is  still  the  basis  of  the  treasury  system. 
The  use  of  banks  by  the  treasury,  authorized  in  the  war  of  seces- 
sion, is  practically,  but  not  exclusively,  relegated  to  negotiations 
concerning  loans  and  war  debt.  Mr.  Woodbury,  by  remarkable 
industry  and  excellent  methods  of  business,  was  able  to  give  due 
attention  to  the  numerous  miscellaneous  subjects  in  charge  of  his 
department,  many  of  which  may  be  seen  in  some  dozen  or  two  vol- 
umes of  treasury  documents  emanating  during  his  term.  Among 
these  I  will  refer  to  a  report  on  the  rise  and  progress  of  cotton  in- 
dustry in  the  United  States,  and  to  another  on  the  losses  sustained 
from  banks  and  bank  paper. 

In  1838  he  was  offered  and  declined  the  chief  justiceship  of  Xew 
Hampshire.  In  1840  Mr.  Van  Buren  was  defeated  for  re-election, 
and  in  the  winter  after  Xew  Hampshire  elected  Mr.  Woodbury  to 
the  United  States  Senate.  So  on  his  retirement  from  the  cabinet 
he  began  his  term  March  4,  1841,  as  senator.  A  question  was  in- 
formally submitted  to  him  whether  he  had  not  lost  his  residence  in 
New  Hampshire  by  his  absence  on  public  business  and  t!*us  become 
ineligible.  He  prepared  and  showed  senators  a  brief  on  the  point, 
which  they  considered  conclusive,  and  no  motion  was  nnuic  in  the 


1894.]  Levi  Woodbury.  13 

senate,  nor  has  the  point  again  been  mooted.  An  extra  session  of 
Congress  was  called,  when  Mr.  Woodbury  at  once  took  ground 
against  the  charges  made  on  the  late  administration,  and  the  new 
policy  projected  in  the  finances  with  such  thorough  information  and 
logical  force  as  materially  aided  to  renew  the  confidence  of  the  de- 
feated democracy.  The  plans  to  re-charter  a  United  States  bauk 
were  vetoed  by  President  Tyler,  and  the  democrats  appealed  to  the 
people  to  repeal  what  else  the  Whigs  had  enacted.  The  campaign 
of  1844  opened  on  the  old  issues,  and  on  the  annexation  of  Texas, 
which  he  had  supported  in  the  senate  and  advocated  before  the 
people.  The  democrats  were  successful,  and  President  Polk  tend- 
ered the  mission  to  the  Court  of  St.  James  to  Mr.  Woodbury,  which 
for  family  reasons  he  declined.  On  leaving  the  cabinet  Mr.  Wood- 
bury had  resumed  the  practice  of  law,  travelling  the  circuit  in  the 
vacations  of  Congress,  as  was  the  habit  of  the  leading  lawyers  of 
Kew  Hampshire. 

In  August,  1845,  Mr.  Jttstice  Story  resigned  from  the  bench  of 
the  supreme  court,  and  Mr.  "Woodbury  was  appointed  to  succeed  that 
distinguished  jurist.  He  accepted,  and  held  all  the  courts  of  the 
Fall  circuit.  He  was  confirmed  by  the  senate  on  its  assembling. 
His  remarkable  industry  and  great  powers  of  tracing  a  legal  prin- 
ciple through  many  precedents  and  analogies  now  found  a  new  and 
fertile  field.  His  decisions  in  the  circuit  court  can  be  found  in  the 
three  volumes  of  Woodbury  and  Minot's  Reports.  In  the  supreme 
court  his  opinions  are  reported  in  from  four  to  eleven  Howard's  reports. 
His  contributions  to  constitutional  law,  to  questions  of  admiralty 
jurisdiction,  conflicts  of  state  and  federal  jurisdiction,  and  the  limits 
of  executive  power,  were  important,  but  in  every  branch  of  law  his 
opinions  show  judicious  discrimination  of  the  true  principle  involved 
in  the  issue  before  him. 

Mr.  Woodbury's  labors  told  on  his  iron  frame,  and  though  ill  he 
completed  the  Spring  circuit  of  1851,  and  after  delivering  before 
Trinity  College,  Hartford,  an  address  July  31,  he  returned  home 
hoping  that  mental  rest  aud  exercise  on  his  farm  would  bring  back 
his  usual  health;  but  in  vain,  and  the  absent  members  of  his  family 
were  summoned  to  his  side.     He  died  Sept.  4,  1851. 

Demonstrations  of  regret  at  his  loss  came  from  his  fellow  citizens 
and  from  the  bar  of  his  native  state,  from  the  circuit  court  he  had 
presided  over,  from  the  circuit  court  of  Xew  York,  and  that  of 
Pennsylvania  and  many  others,  and  from  the  supreme  court  at 
Washington.  The  judges  of  the  supreme  court  and  the  leaders  of 
the  bar  bore  witness  to  his  courteous  patience  on  the  bench,  to  his 
ability,  integrity  and  professional  learning.  It  would  exceed  the 
limits  of  this  article  to  repeat  all  that  was  eloquently  said  by  dis- 
tinguished leaders  of  all  parties  in  commendfition  of  the  deceased, 
but  I  may  bo  pardoned  for  referring  to  some  special  characteristics 
they  commemorated  without  repeating  the  universal  testimony  they 
bear  to  his  industry,  ability,  learning  and  integrity. 
VOL.  XL VIII.  2* 


14  Levi  Woodbury.  [Jan. 

In  the  Supreme  Court  at  "Washington,  Hon.  J.  J.  Crittenden, 
attorney  general,  in  offering  the  resolutions  of  the  bar,  said  : 

Judge  Woodbury  was  a  man  who  for  a  long  series  of  years  occupied  a 
most  conspicuous  position.  The  continued  confidence  reposed  in  him  by 
his  country,  and  the  numerous  honors  which  he  shared,  all  testify  to  his 
greatness,  and  will  be  his  noblest  monument.  *  *  *  Judge  Woodbury 
was  a  man  who  wore  his  honors,  great  as  they  were,  meekly,  and  it  was 
his  distinguishing  merit  that  he  thought  much  less  of  thern  thau  of  the 
duties  they  entailed. 

Chief  Justice  Taney  replied  : 

His  life  had  been  passed  mainly  in  the  public  service  before  lie  became  a 
member  of  this  court.  And  in  the  various  and  important  offices,  judicial 
and  political,  to  which  he  had  beeu  appointed,  he  was  always  found  equal 
to  the  duties  imposed  upon  him,  and  never  failed  to  distinguish  himself  by 
the  extent  and  accuracy  of  his  information  upon  every  subject  connected 
with  his  official  duties,  or  upon  which  he  was  at  any  time  called  upon  to 
act.  *  *  *  We  all  feel  we  have  lost  an  able,  upright  and  learned 
associate,  and  most  truly  and  sincerely  deplore  his  death. 

In  the  New  York  Circuit  Court  Mr.  J.  Prescot  Hall  moved,  and 
the  Hon.  Benjamin  F.  Butler,  United  States  attorney  general  under 
Presidents  Jackson  and  Van  Buren,  seconded  the  resolutions  of  the 
bar.     Mr.  Justice  Nelson  replied  : 

He  was  truly  an  able  and  painstaking  judge.  Patient  if  possible  to  a 
fault  in  listening  to  the  arguments  and  authorities  of  counsel;  and  what  is 
of  equal  if  not  higher  merit,  indefatigable  in  weighing  the  arguments  and 
searching  out  the  authorities  referred  to,  so  that  counsel  might  be  sure  the 
client  could  have  the  benelit  of  them  in  the  investigations  and  judgment  of 
the  court.  *  *  *  The  private  virtues  and  worth  of  the  deceased  were 
as  exalted  as  his  public  character.  Remarkable  for  the  kindness  of  his  dis- 
position and  amiability  of  temper,  his  intercourse  with  his  brethren  of  the 
bench  and  bar  was  most  agreeable  and  pleasant,  ever  ready  to  extend 
courtesy  and  respect  where  it  was  due,  and  especially  guarded  at  ail  times 
against  uttering  an  offensive  word  that  might  wound  the  feelings  of  an 
associate. 

Mr.  J.  Prcscott  Hall,  Mr.  Butler,  late  attorney  general  of  the 
United  States,  and  Judge  Betts  of  the  District  Court  also  were 
among  the  speakers. 

In  Pennsylvania  Mr.  George  M.  Dallas,  seconding  the  resolutions 
presented  by  Mr.  Ashmead,  said : 

He  had  uniformly  exhibited  talents  of  the  most  solid  and  brilliant  char- 
acter, accompanied  with  unvarying  purity  of  moral  purpose,  and  adorned 
by  an  unfading  glow  of  true  patriotism;  such  a  citizen  as  Lev-  Woodbury 
was  invaluable  to  any  country,  and  he  felt  pride  and  pleasure  in  being  per- 
mitted even  briefly  to  bear  his  testimony  to  his  merit. 

Mr.  Justice  Grier,  with  whom  was  Judge  Kane,  replied  : 

The  country  has  lost  a  most  able  and  learned  judge,  a  pattern  of  assiduity 


1894.]  Levi  Woodbunj.  15 

in  the  performance  of  bis  public  duties,  and  the  members  of  this  court  have 
to  lament  the  loss  of  a  beloved  companion  and  brother. 

Chief  Justice  Shaw  presided  over  the  bar  meeting  in  Massachu- 
setts. The  resolutions,  after  expressing  their  opinion  on  his  char- 
acter and  ability,  proceed  : 

That  in  recalling  the  prominent  traits  of  Judge  Woodbury's  public  and 
private  character  we  cannot  forget  the  unvarying  kindness  which  disting- 
uished his  intercourse  with  the  members  of  tins  bar,  nor  the  exact  and  ready 
attention  to  the  slightest  call  of  official  or  personal  duty,  which  enabled  him 
in  the  passage  of  every  day  to  coutributs  iomething  to  the  service  of  his 
fellow  men. 

At  the  proceedings  in  Belknap  County,  N.  H.,  the  Hon.  Lyman 
B.  Walker  moved,  and  Gen.  Franklin  Pierce  seconded  the  resolves. 
Hon.  John  J.  Gilchrist,  the  Chief  Justice,  said: 

The  patient  industry,  the  self-devotion,  the  determination  to  do  his  duty 
which  he  brought  to  the  discharge  of  his  various  official  responsibilities,  are 
known  ic  us  all.  The  vigor  in  debate,  the  powerful  reasoning  which  he 
brought  to  bear  upon  the  important  subjects  that  came  before  him  both  as 
an  advocate  and  a  senator,  his  consistent  and  -unvarying  fidelity  to  his  poli- 
tical principles,  and  his  dignified  bearing,  will  long  be  remembered,  not 
only  in  his  own  state  but  by  the  American  people. 

An  appreciative,  sympathetic  and  eloquent  tribute  to  his  memory- 
was  the  eulogy  of  Hon.  Robert  Rantoul,  Jr.,  delivered  at  Ports- 
mouth at  the  request  of  the  city  government,  where  all  is  so  well 
said  it  is  difficult  to  select  an  extract,  but  Mr.  Rantoul  was  a  cher- 
ished friend  and  understood  him.     I  cite  the  closing  paragraph : 

He  believed  the  world  to  he  upon  the  whole  a  good  world,  and  worthy 
of  its  Maker;  but  lie  would  not  have  so  believed  if  he  had  not  recognized 
in  it  what  is  its  best  quality,  its  capacity  for  improvement;  this,  which  is 
sometimes  the  only  consolation  tor  the  philanthropist  grieving  over  the  vice 
and  misery  around  him,  was  the  inspiring  fact  ever  present  in  his  thoughts, 
and  impelling  him  in  his  exertions  to  assist  the  improvement  and  promote 
the  progress  in  whose  indefinite  development  the  hopes  of  all  good  men 
centre.  "Without  indulging  in  sanguine  visions  of  the  sudden  transforma- 
tion of  man  and  society  which  the  nature  of  man  makes  impossible  to  be 
realized,  and  which  the  wisdom  of  experience  repudiates,  he  believed  in 
what  experience  demonstrates — progress.  He  rejoiced  in  past  progress; 
he  felt  and  realized  a  present  continuing  progress.  He  trusted  and  con- 
fided in  a  future  and  indefinite  progress.  For  this  he  struggled  and  toiled; 
to  this  be  sacrificed  ease  and  pleasure  and  health,  and  at  last  life  itself,  in 
the  protracted  martyrdom  of  overtasked  powers,  strained  till  the  strings  of 
life  were  broken  in  the  service  of  ids  fellow  men.  In  this  as  in  all  things, 
he  lived  quite  up  to  the  doctrine  which  it  is  so  much  easier  to  preach  than 
to  practise,  the  doctrine  of  the  illustrious  school  to  which  he  belonged,  in 
which  Jefferson,  Madisou,  Langdon  and  Jackson  were  exemplars,  that  a 
statesman  owes  all  his  powers  to  his  country. 

Mr.  "Woodbury's  taste  for  science  had  early  led  him  to  form  col- 


. 


1G  Levi  Woodbury.  [Jan. 

lections  of  the  botany  and  mineralogy  of  his  native  state  ;  to  these  he 
afterwards  added  conchology.  He  delivered  many  public  lectures 
before  the  National  Institute  and  various  college  and  historical 
societies,  in  which  his  earnest  desire  to  promote  progress,  self-knowl- 
edge and  independence  of  opiuion  among  his  countrymen,  is  mani- 
fest. Jlis  eulogy  on  Gen.  Jackson  in  1845  showed  a  high  appre- 
ciation of  that  remarkable  man,  formed  through  years  of  confidential 
intercourse. 

In  his  eulogy  Mr.  Eantoul  referred  to  the  confidence  of  the 
democratic  party  in  Mr.  Woodbury,  although  he  was  withdrawn 
from  polities,  and  continued : 

It  is  only  a  very  few  months  since  his  native  state  of  New  Hampshire  in 
full  convention  of  the  prevailing  party  here,  again  unanimously  presented 
Mr.  Woodbury's  name  for  the  presidency,  and  it  is  no  disparagement  to 
other  eminent  men  who  may  have  been  thought  to  deserve  the  honors  and 
to  be  competent  to  discharge  the  duties  of  that  high  station,  to  say  -that  no 
event  was  more  probable  than  his  election  to  succeed  the  present  incumbent 
in  that  office. 

A  summary  of  I113  speeches  and  views  would  not  be  appropriate 
here.  I  will  say  that  the  Compromises  of  1850  received  his  warm 
support,  as  tending  to  preserve  the  Union  he  loved  from  perils  he 
clearly  foresaw.  In  the  matter  of  religious  liberty  and  toleration, 
won  in  New  Hampshire  in  1819  after  twenty  years  of  conflict,  by 
repealing  the  power  of  towns  to  settle  ministers  and  tax  the  minority 
for  their  support,  when  governor  he  avowed  his  adhesion  to  the 
new  liberty.  Again  in  18-18  he  invoked  in  a  letter  the  same  prin- 
ciples in  behalf  of  a  charter  for  the  College  of  the  Holy  Cross  at 
"Worcester,  and  again  in  1850  in  the  New  Hampshire  Constitutional 
Convention  lie  sought  to  remove  constitutional  disabilities  from 
Catholics,  which  at  a  later  day  was  accomplished. 

Mr.  Woodbury  had  a  pleasing  and  flexible  voice,  and  was  a  ready 
and  impressive  speaker  at  the  bar,  in  the  senate,  before  the  people, 
and  on  the  bench,  placing  less  reliance  on  the  flowers  of  oratory 
than  on  the  logical  array  of  the  facts  he  wished  to  impress.  "He 
was  courteous  in  debate/'  remarks  Mr.  Rantoul.  "He  never  allowed 
political  prejudices  to  poison  the  sanctity  of  private  intercourse." 

The  domestic  life  of  Mr.  Woodbury  was  singularly  happy.  At 
home  he  loved  to  have  his  family  about  him  even  when  at  work. 
Mrs,  Woodbury  always  made  her  parlors  attractive,  and  he  joined 
in  their  social  life  more  than  would  be  expected.  His  wife  and 
children  survived  him.  The  children  were  :  Charles  Levi :  Mary 
Elizabeth,  who  married  Judge  Montgomery  Blair,  subsequently 
postmaster  general  under  President  Lincoln  ;  Frances  A.,  who  mar- 
ried A.  H.  Lowery,  Esq.,  of  Xew  York  ;  Virginia  L.,  who  married 
Hon.  G.  V.  Fox.  assistant  secretary  of  the  navy  under  President 
Lincoln,  and  Ellen  C.  de  Q. ,  unmarried. 

The  engraving  which  illustrates  this  article  is  taken  from  a  bust  of 


1894.]  „       Inscriptions  at  Norfolk,  Va.  17 

Mr.  "Woodbury  made  when  he  was  Secretary  of  the  Treasury.  The 
bust  was  modeled  by  a  young  Vermont  man,  a  self-taught  genius, 
then  at  the  threshold  of  art,  seeking  some  recognition  among  the 
public  men  at  "Washington,  but  who  soon  became  the  celebrated 
sculptor,  Hiram  Powers. 


INSCRIPTIONS  AT  NORFOLK,  VA. 

Cornmnn'.cated  by  Edward  W.  James,  Esq.,  of  Norfolk,  Va. 

The  following  inscriptions  taken  from  Cedar  Grove  Cemetery, 
Norfolk,  Va.,  may  prove  of  interest  to  New  Englanders  and  per- 
sons of  New  England  descent. 

In  memory  of  Cap'  Life  Holden,  a  native  of  Shrewsbury,  Mass.,  and  for 
more  than  thirty  years  a  resident  of  this  City,  who  departed  this  life  Feb. 
25th,  1841,  aged  60.     It  is  sown  in  corruption,  it  is  raised  in  incorruption. 

Sacred  to  the  Memory  of  Julia  Ann  Bryant,  who  was  Born  at  Provi- 
dence, R.  I.  June  17th  1803;  And  Died  in  Norfolk  Va  June  9th  1845,  Aged 
42  years. 

Jesus  said  unto  her,  I  am  the  resurrection  and  the  life:  he  that  believeth 
iu  me,  though  he  were  dead,  yet  shall  he  live.     John  xi.  Chap.  25  ver 

In  Memory  of  John  Padelford,  Born  in  Taunton,  Mass.  Dec.  6,  1796: 
Died  Aug.  25,  1826.  Amiable  and  bland  in  his  manners,  generous  and 
just  in  his  dealings,  he  won  the  affectionate  regard  of  all  who  knew  him. 

Memory  of  Porteous  Deming,  a  native  of  West  Milton  Vermont,  who 
departed  this  life,  Novr  12th,  1833.  in  the  29th  year  of  his  age. 

Not  youthful  bloom,  nor  manly  strength,  could  shield  him  from  thy  sting 
0!  Death,  nor  love's  most  fond  endearing  ties,  restrain  his  spirit  from  the 
skies. 

Erected  by  his  only  surviving  Son,  To  the  memory  of  Stephen  Harris, 
a  native  of  Boston  Mass,  but  for  the  last  36  years  previous  to  his  death  a 
citizen  of  this  Borough,  where  he  died  on  the  26th  day  of  October,  1836. 

Charles  L.  Brockwell,  Born  in  Lyme  Connecticut,  Dec:  31st  1802, 
Died  Feb.  12th  1S48. 

Raised  to  the  memory  of  Martha  P.  Fobes,  consort  of  Alpheus  Fobes, 
Jun.  She  was  born  at  Taunton  Mass,  and  died  in  this  Borough,  June  6, 
1833,  aged  33  years  &  4  months.  She  lived  a  christian  and  died  in  triumph. 
Blessed  are  the  dead  who  die  in  the  Lord. 

Our  Mother  Mrs  Mary  Clarke.  Born  in   Portsmouth.  N.   II.,  June  9, 
1792;  Died  in  Norfolk,  Va.,  May  28,  1868. 
Christ  iu  me,  the  hope  of  glory. 

Mrs  Ellen  M.  McMath,  Born  in  Portsmouth  N.  H.  Mar  29th,  1824 
Died  in  Norfolk,  Va.,  June  7,  1852. 

Sacred  to  the  memory  of  Warren  Ketchum,  who  departed  this  life  Sept. 
3rd  1814  Aged  43  years.  A  native  of  Vermont  hut  for  the  last  eight  years 
a  resident  of  this  City  How  sweet  O  Lord  is  death  to  me  Since  death  will 
bring  my  soul  to  thee. 


18        -  Noyes  Inscription  and  Memoranda.  [Jan. 

Sacred  to  the  memory  of  Sylvanus  Crockett  son  of  Jonathan  &  Catharine 
Crockett,  of  Thomaston  Maine,  who  died  at  Norfolk  Va,  on  board  suhoouer 
Corro,  Oct.  7,  1S-14. 


NO  YES  INSCRIPTION  AND  MEMORANDA. 

By  James  Atkins  Notes,  A.B.,  Pb.B.,  of  Cambridge,  Mass. 

A  PHOTOGRAPH  of  the  light-brown  stone  tablet  which  covers  the 
remains  of  Rev.  James  Noyes  in  the  ancient  Palmer  burying  ground 
upon  a  sloping  hill  on  the  east  side  of  Wequetequoc  Cove,  midway 
between  Stonington,  Connecticut,  and  "Westerly,  Rhode  Island,  is 
reproduced  in  fae-simile  on  the  opposite  page. 

Rev.  James  Noyes  was  a  son  of  Rev.  James  Noyes  of  Newbury, 
Mass.,  and  grandson  of  Rev.  William  Noyes,  rector  of  Cholderton, 
Co.  Wilts.,  England.  lie  was  born  in  Newbury,  Mass.,  11  March, 
1639—40  ;  was  graduated  at  Harvard  College,  1659  ;  ordained  10 
Sept.  lb'7'4,  as  the  first  minister  of  Stonington,  Conn.  ;  married  11 
Sept.  1674,  Dorothy,  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Anna  (Lord)  Stan- 
ton.     Rev.  James  Noyes  was  one  of  the  founders  of  Yale  College. 

The  photograph  was  taken  in  1889  under  the  direction  of  Judge 
Richard  A.  Wheeler  of  Stonington,  Conn.  The  tablet  was,recut 
before  the  photograph  was  taken.*  George  W.  Marshall,  LL.D., 
Rouge  Croix,  Heralds'  College,  London,  says  that  the  only 
Noy-Noye-Noyes  arms  recorded  are  those  of  William  Noy  of 
Bury  an,  Co.  Cornwall,  England,  who  died  1593,  and  whose  grand- 
son was  William  ^oy,  Attorney  General  to  Charles  I.  These  arms 
were  granted  by  Robert  Cooke,  Clarencieux,  and  the  blazon  is  as 
follows  :f 

Coat — Azure  3  cross.es  botony  in  bend  Argent. 

Crest— On  a  chapeau  Azure  turned  up  Plrtuina  a  dove  Argent  in  fche  beak 
an  olive  branch  Vert. 

The  epitaph  was  written  by  Rev.  Eliphalet  Adams,  Harvard 
College  1694,  who  died  1753  ;  pastor  in  1720  of  the  First  Con- 
gregational Church,  New  London,  Conn.  The  original  draft  was 
in  1889  in  the  Sunday  School  Library  Room  of  the  First  Congrega- 
tional Church,  Stonington,  Conn. j 

Rev.  William  Noyes,  rector  of  Cholderton,  Co.  Wilts.,  Eng.  (a 
town  11  miles  from  Salisbury),  matriculated  at  University  College, 

*  These  arms  appear  to  be  wrongfully  assumed  bv  this  branch  of  the  family.  Also  tho 
bend  her."  i«  reversed,  probably  a  mistake  of  the  ^tone  cutter. 

t  This  lii.ii-oirn^  differs  from  that  in  Vivian's  Visitation  of  Cornwall  and  Burke's  General 
Armory ;  Ihk  i-  that  on  record  in  ihe  Heralds'  Co'l.  go,  London. 

t  Refereitpt*. — Heraldic  Journal,  Boston,  1866.  Vol.  II.,  p.  84.  New-England  Historical 
and  G-'tKMi.O'.'a'  Registku,  Vol.  XIII..  pp.  26-1*9.  Caulkins's  History  of  New  Lend  n, 
Conn.,  p  :>85.  Wheerer's  Hi-t.  Firs!  Chinch,  Stoninjrton,  Conn.,  p.  '.'94.  Kd.  E.  Salis- 
bury's Family  Hi-t.  and  Gen.,  Vol.  I.,  Pt.  I,  pp.  xvii»,  2  >2,  266,  316,  3')9;  Vol.  HI.,  supple- 
ment, Pedigree  Charts,  Lord,  V.,  VI.    Sibley's  Harvard  Graduates,  Vol.  II.,  p.  4-5. 


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IFoyes  Inscription  and  Memoranda. 


19 


Oxford,  15  Nov.  1588,  ae.  20  years,  and  was  graduated  B.A.  31 
May,  1592.  He  married  Anne  Parker.  He  died  intestate  before 
30  April,  102-2,  -when  an  Inventory  was  made  and  widow  app. 
adm.  28  May,  1G22.  (Court  of  Archdeacon  of  Sarum).  She  bur. 
at  Choldcrton,  7  March,  1657,  ce.  82  yrs.  (per  Parish  Register). 
Her  will  is  at  Somerset  House,  London  (  TTootton,  130),  and  men- 
tions sons  Jnmes  and  Nicholas  in  New  England.  Will  made  18 
March,  1-655-,  proved  21  April,  1658,  at  London. 

Their  sons,  Rev.  James  and  Deacon  Nicholas  Noyes,  in  March, 
1G33,  embarked  for  New  England  in  the  Mary  and  John  of  Lon- 
don, with  their  cousin  Rev.  Thomas  Parker,  and  were  among  the 
settlers  of  Newbury,  Mass.,  May,  1G35. 

Rev.  James  Noyes,  born  in  England  about  1008;  matriculated 
at  Brasenose  College,  Oxford,  22  Aug.  1G27,  but  was  not  grad- 
uated; died  at  Newbury,  Mass.,  22  Oct.  1G56,  ve.  48:  married 
1633,  Sara,  eldest  daughter  of  Mr.  Joseph  Brown  of  Southamp- 
ton, Co.  Hants,  Eng.  She  died  13  Sept.  1691,  at  Newbury, 
Mass.  His  will  made  17  Oct.  1656,  proved  20  Nov.  1G5G,  men- 
tions wife  Sara  and  children,  brother  Deacon  Nicholas  Noyes  and 
cousin  Rev.  Thomas  Parker.  Inventory  of  estate  amounting  to 
£657  lis.  4d.  Her  will  made  11  Nov.  1681,  proved  29  Sept. 
1691.     Inventory  of  estate  amounted  to  £1108.* 

The  branch  of  the  Noyes  family  of  East 
Mascalls,  Co.  Sussex,  England,  represented 
by  Thomas  Herbert  Noyes,  B.A.  Ch.  Ch. 
Oxford,  claim  the  following  arms  :  j 

— Azure  3  crosses  crossiet  in  bend  Argent. 
On  a  chapeau  Guies  turned   up   Ermine 
j  a  oove  urgent  in  the  beak  an  olive  branch  Vert. 

!/f      Dr.  Marshall  is  of  the  opinion  that  these 
'j  arms  have  been  wrongfully  assumed. 

In  the  Visitation  of  Berks  at  Heralds'  Col- 
lege, no  arms  are  entered  with  the  partial 
pedigree  of  this  family. 

A  cut  of  the  arms  of  Noyes  of  East  Mascalls 
from   the  Archaeological   Collections  of  Co. 
Sussex,  1857,  vol.  ix.,  page  310,  is  given  in  the  margin. 

*  References—  Repstrnm  Universitatis,  Oxon,  II.,  r>.  166;  III..  17!.  P.  565  Hist.  New- 
born, Co.  Berks.,  England,  hy  W.  Money.  Founder's  of  New  England,  bv  S.  G.  Drake, 
p.  68.  Old  2«ew  Eng,  Traits,  by  G.  Lunt,  App.  Ii.  and  III.  Mather's  Aiagnaiia,  Ed.  1n53-5, 
Vol.  I.,  r>.  4S4.  Coffin's  Newbury,  1-5,  23,  312,  3-56.  Reminiscences  of  a  Nonagenarian, 
by  8.  A.  EonwY,  p.  114.  Savage's  Gen.  Diet.,  Vol.  111.,  p.  296,  Noyes.  Rkq„  xii., 
64,  Wyi  ot  VV'idow  Anne  Noves;  xiii.,  4i>3,  Burial  of  Mrs.  Anne  Noyes.  Parish  Notes,  by 
Rev.  E.  P.  Barrow,  rector  of  Choldercon  in  1SS9,  page  8.  N.  Y.  Gen.  and  Biog.  Rec, 
xx.,  p.  6o,  139  —Foster's  Alumni  Oxonienses. 

t  References.—? Burke's  General  Armory,  Burke's  Landed  Gentry  of  Great  Britain  and 
Irelandi  Watford's  County  Families,  Fahbairu's  Crests  of  the  families  of  Great  Britain  and 
Ireland,  Lower's  PafronyaiieaBritaunica,  Archaeological  Col  lections  of  Co.  .Sussex,  England, 
Notes  and  Queries,  London. — 2  i  series,  Vol.  ii..  IS9-47S  ;  2d  series,  Vol.  \ii  ,  35:  4th  series, 
Vol.  i.,  390-556;  4iL  series,  Vol.  ii.,  13-LS7.    The  Genealogist,  Vol.  vi.,  184*2,  p.  67. 


^A       Coat— A: 

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Sil a  dove  Arge 


20  -  Excise  on  Bread  in  Boston. 


EXCISE  OX  BREAD  IX  BOSTON  IX  1734. 

Communicated  by  the  late  Jeremiah  Colbcp.n",  A.M.,  of  Brookline,  Mass. 

The  following  petition  of  the  Bakers  of  Boston.  October,  1734,* 
the  original  of  which  is  presented  by  mc  to  the  New-England.  His- 
toric Genealogical  Society,  will,  I  think,  interest  the  readers  of  the 
Register. 

Suffolk  ss.  To  the  Selectmen  of  the  Town  of  Boston. 

The  Petition  of  us  the  Subscribers  Bakers 
of  Loaf  bread  within  the  said  Town. 
Humbly  Sheweth — 

That  your  petitioners  for  Maney  years  past  have  Laboured  under 
great  discouragement  with  respect  to  the  Assize  on  bread,  and  have  lately 
laid  a  true  State  of  our  Case  before  you,  Since  which  on  the  last  day  of 
'January  last, you  were  pleased  to  Agree  on  a  Xew  Assize  of  bread,  whereby 
we  apprehend  we  have  not  Suitable  Encouragement,  especially  when  we 
Consider  that  Faggotts,  Labour,  Yeast  <fcca.  is  Considerable  dearsr  than 
formerly. 

That  your  petitioners  humbly  apprehend  if  the  Assize  of  Bread 
wras  to" be  Sett  here  in  Boston,  as  it  is  in  England,  it  would  be  upou  the 
most  just  foottiug,  which  method  of  regulating  such  Assize  is  demonstrated, 
in  a  Book  Entitled,  "An  Exact  Abridgement  of  all  the  Statutes  in  force 
and  use,  from  Magna  Charta  9.  H.  3d.  to  the  beginning  of  the  Reign  of 
King  George.     Vol  1.  page  120. 

Wherefore  your  petitioners  humbly  pray  you  would  take  the 
affair  into  your  Consideration,  and  make  an  allowance  for  the  difference  of 
"Wheat,  which  is  one  fifth  part,  it  being  most  Certain  that  the  Wheat  in 
England  is  as  much  above  Sixty  pounds  #J  Bushell,  as  our  Wheat,  here  is 
above  fifty  pounds  W  Bushell. 

And  your  petitioners  as  iu  duty  bound  Shall 
Ever  pray  &ca. 

John  Harrod 

Wm    S.PEAKMAN 

Grafton   Ef.veryear. 
In  behalf  of  ye  Rest. 

P.S.  We  have  Seen  y6  Book  above  Mentiond  and  there  it  expresly  Says 
Averdupoys  weight  in  the  Table. 

Of  the  signers  of  this  petition,  William  Speakman  was  one  of 
the  first  wardens  of  Trinity  Church ;  and  land  for  that  church  was 
purchased  of  him.t 

*  Bakers  were  ordered  to  stamp  their  loaves  "  with  the  first  and  last  letters  of  their 
ntmies."  The  weight  of  bread  was  prescribed  as  follows:  il  The  penny  white  loaf,  3  ok. 
6dw.;  wheatm,  407;.  In  dw.;  household,  6  oz.  10  dw.;  sixpenny  w  beaten  loaf,  1  lb.  13 
OZ-  13  dw."—  Drake's  Hist,  of  Bostmu  p.  599. 

t  '•  April  25,  17*28.  Land  was  at  this  time  purchased  of  William  Speakman  at  the  comer 
of  Summer-Street  and  Bi.-hop's-ailey,  now  Hawley  Street."— Drake,  p.  533. 


1894.]  The  Sicords  of  Washington.  21 


THE  SWORDS  OF  WASHINGTON, 

By  Col.  ThofwXtox  A.  Washington",  of  "Washington,  D.  C. 

Jx  an  appropriate  receptacle,  in  the  library  of  the  Department  of 
State,  may  be  seen  the  veritable  ":  Battle  Sword  r'  worn  by  General 
Washington,  first  as  a  colonel  in  the  Continental  service  of  Ver- 
ginia,  and  afterwards  as  Commander  in  Chief  of  the  Army  during 
the  entire  period  of  our  Revolutionary  struggle. 

A  manuscript  history  of  the  sword  lies  upon  it,  from  which  the 
following  ext7-aet  was  transcribed  by  the  writer : 

To  each  of  my  nephews,  William  Augustine  Washington,  George  Lewis, 
George  Steptoe  Washington,  Bushrod  Washington  and  Samuel  Washing- 
ton, I  give  one  of  the  swords  or  cutteaux.  of  which  I  may  die  possessed, 
and  they  are  to  chuse  in  the  order  they  are  named.  These  swords  are 
accompanied  with  an  injunction  not  to  unsheath  them  for  the  purpose  of 
shedding  blood,  except  it  be  for  self  defence  or  in  the  defense  of  their 
Country  and  its  rights,  and  in  the  latter  case,  to  keep  them  unsheathed  and 
prefer  falling  with  them  in  their  hands  to  the  relinquishment  thereof. 

This  sword  was  received  under  the  foregoing  provision  of  General  Wash- 
ington's will,  by  Samuel  Washington,  and  was  presented  to  the  United 
States  by  his  son  Samuel  T.  Washington,  Feb.  7,  18-13,  through  the  Hon- 
orable George  W.  Summers,  member  of  Congress  from  Virginia. 

The  sword  whose  history  is  referred  to  hi  the  above  extract,  is  a 
handsome,  well  preserved  blade,  and  is  what  is  known  in  military 
parlance  as  a  straight  sabre,  showing  but  a  slight  deviation  from  a 
right  line.  It  ha*  a  fine  hilt,  unprotected  by  a  guard,  unless  a  slight 
"  S  "  shaped  piece  of  metal  between  the  hilt  and  blade  may  be  so 
regarded.  The  hilt  is  wrapped  alternately  with  bright  steel  rib- 
bon, and  some  green  material,  probably  a  species  of  shagreen. 

The  writer  has  taken  the  pains  to  make  a  careful  examination  of 
the  proceedings  of  Congress  in  connection  with  this  matter  as  re- 
ported in  the  Congressional  Globe,  Vol.  12,  1842-3,  Library 
House  of  Representatives,  and  is  happy  in  being  able  to  assert  that 
the  record  appears  to  bear  indisputable  evidence  that  in  the  matter 
of  the  presentation  and  gift,  both  parties  were  actuated  by  motives 
purely  patriotic  and  disinterested. 

House  of  Representatives. 

Tuesday,  Feb.  8,  1843. 
*  *  *  *  #  *  * 

Mr.  G.  W.  Summers  now  rose  and  addressed  the  House,  viz : 
"  Mr.  Speaker,  Samuel  T.  Washington,  a  citizen  of  Kanawha  County  in 
the  Commonwealth  of  Virginia,  and  one  of  my  constituents,  has  honored 
me  with  the  commission  of  presenting,  in.  bis  name,  and  on  his  behalf,  to 

VOL.     XL  V  III.  3 


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22  -  The  Swords  of  Washington.  [Jan. 

the  Congress  of  the  United  States,  and  through  that  body  to  the  people  of 
the  United  States  *  *  *  *  the  sword  worn  by  George  Washington, 
first  as  Colonel  in  the  Colonial  Service  of  Virginia,  in  Forbes'  campaign 
against  the  French  and  Indians,  and  afterwards  during  the  whole  period  of 
the  war  of  Independence,  as  Commander  in  Chief  of  the  American  Army. 

It  is  a  plain  cutteaux,  or  hanger,  with  a  greet)  hilt  and  silver  guard.  On 
the  upper  ward  of  the  scabbard  is  engraven  'J.  Bailey,  Fishkil!.'  It  is 
accompanied  by  the  buckskin  belt  and  clasp,  whereon  are  engraven  the 
letters  •  G.  W.'  and  the  figures  '  1757.'  These  are  all  of  the  plainest 
workmanship,  but  substantial  and  in  keeping  with  the  man  and  the  times 
to  which  they  belonged. 

The  history  of  this  sword  is  perfectly  authentic,  and  leaves  no  shadow  of 
doubt  as  to  its  identity."     *     *     *     * 

Here  the  speaker  quoted  the  item  already  given,  of  General  Washing- 
ton's will  bequeathing  the  swords,  and  resumed: 

"In  the  disposition  of  the  swords  among  the  5  nephews  therein  enumer- 
ated, the  one  now  presented  fell  to  the  lot  of  Samuel  Washington,  the  de- 
visee last  named  in  the  clause  of  the  will  which  I  have  read. 

This  gentleman,  who  died  a  few  years  since,  in  the  county  of  Kanawha, 
and  who  was  the  father  of  Samuel  T.  Washington,  the  donor,  I  knew  well. 
I  have  often  seen  this  sword  in  his  possession  and  received  from  him  the 
following  account  of  the  manner  in  which  it  became  his  property  in  the 
division  made  among  the  devisees. 

He  soys  he  knew  it  to  have  been  the  side  arms  of  General  Washington 
during. the  Revolutionary  War.  not  that  used  on  occasions  of  parade  and 
reviews;  but  the  constant  service  sword  of  the  great  Chief;  that  he  had 
himself  seen  General  Washington  wear  this  identical  sword  (he  presumed 
for  the  last  time),  when  in  179-4  he  reviewed  the  Virginia  and  Maryland 
forces,  then  concentrated  at  Cumberland,  under  command  of  General  Lee, 
and  destined  to  cooperate  with  the  Pennsylvania  and  New  Jersey  troops, 
then  assembled  at  Bedford,  in  suppressing  what  has  been  called  '  the 
Whiskey  insurrection.' 

General  Washington  was  at  that  time  President  of  the  United  States, 
and  as  such,  Commander  in  Chief  of  the  U.  S.  Army.  It  was  known  that 
it  was  his  intention  to  lead  the  army  in  person  on  that  occasion  had  he 
found  it  necessary,  and  he  went  to  Bedford  and  Cumberland  prepared  for 
that  event.     *     *     *     * 

Samuel  Washington  held  the  position  of  Captain  at  that  time  himself 
and  served  in  the  campaign,  many  of  the  incidents  of  which  he  has  related 
to  me. 

He  was  anxious  to  obtain  this  particular  sword  and  preferred  it  to  all 
the  others,  among  which  was  the  ornamented  and  costly  present  of  the 
great  Frederick. 

At  the  time  of  the  division  among  the  nephews,  without  intimating  what 
his  preference  was,  he  jocosely  remarked,  '  that  inasmuch  as  he  was  the 
only  one  of  them  who  had  participated  in  military  service,  they  ought  to 
permit  him  to  take  choice.'  This  suggestion  was  met  in  the  same  spirit  in 
which  it  was  made,  and  the  choice  being  awarded  him,  he  chose  this,  the 
plainest  and  intrinsically  the  least  valuable  of  any,  simply  because  it  was 
the  '  battle  sword.' 

I  am  also  in  possession  of  the  most  satisfactory  evidence,  furnished  by 
Colonel  George  C.  Washington,  of  Georgetown,  the  nearest  male  relative 
of  General  Washington  now  living,  as  to  the  identity  of  this  sword.     His 


1804.]  „        The  Swords  of  Washington.  23 

information  was  derived  from  his  father,  William  Augustine  Washington, 
the  devisee  first  named  in  the  clause  of  the  will  I  have  just  read,  from  bis 
uncle  the  late  Judge  Bushrtid  Washington,  of  the  Supreme  Court,  and 
Major  Lawrence  Lewis,  the  acting  executor  of  Geueral  Washington's  will, 
all  of  Whom  concur  in  the  sentiment  that  the  true  service  sicord  was  that 
selected  by  Captain  Samuel  Washington. 

It  remained  in  this  gentleman's  possession,  until  his  death,  esteemed  hy 
him  the  most  precious  memento  of  his  illustrious  kinsman.  It  then  he- 
came  the  property  of  his  son,  who,  animated  hy  that  patriotism  which  so 
characterised  '  the  father  of  his  country,'  has  consented  that  such  a  relic 
ou^ht  not  to  be  appropriated  by  an  individual  citizen,  and  instructed  me, 
his  representative,  to  oiler  it  to  the  Nation,  to  be  preserved  in  its  public 
depositories  as  the  common  property  of  all." 

******** 

Mr.  Adams  then  rose  to  submit  a  resolution  and  made  an  eloquent  speech 
thereon,  viz : 

"Mr.  Speaker,  I  submit  the  following  joint  resolution: 

Resolved  by  the  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives  in  Congress  assem- 
bled, that  the  thanks  of  Congress  be  presented  to  Samuel  T.  Washington 
of  Kanawha  County,  Virginia,  for  the  present  of  the  sword,  used  by  his 
illustrious  relation,- George  Washington,  in  the  military  career  of  his  early 
youth,  in  the  seven  years  war,  and  throughout  the  war  of  our  national  in- 
dependence.    *     *     *     * 

That  these  precious  relics  are  hereby  accepted  in  the  name  of  the  Nation ; 
that  they  be  deposited  for  safe  keeping  in  the  Department  of  State  of  the 
United  States,  and  that  a  copy  of  this  resolution,  signed  by  the  President 
of  the  Senate  and  the  Speaker  of  the  House  of  Representatives,  be  trans- 
mitted to  the  said  Samuel  T.  Washington. 

Received,  unanimously  adopted  and  returned  to  the  House  of  Representa- 
tives where  it  was  also  unanimously  adopted." 

An  eloquent  speech  was  also  made  in  the  Senate  on  the  occasion  by 
Senator  Archer  of  Virginia. 

It  was  resolved  also  by  the  House  that  20,000  copies  of  the  entire  pro- 
ceedings on  the  occasion  be  printed  for  distribution. 

Mr.  Briggs,  House  of  Representatives,  begged  permission  to  amend  the 
journal  before  that  resolution  was  agreed  to.  He  begged  to  move  an 
amendment  to  the  journal  by  the  addition  of  .the  following  letter  of  Mr. 
Samuel  T.  Washington  to  Mr.  Summers,  accompanying  the  sword  and 
cane  which  was  yesterday  presented  to  Congress: 

Coals  Mouth,  Kenawha  Co.,  Va.. 
My  dear  Sir:  Jan.  9,  1843. 

With  this  you  will  receive  the  war  sword  of  my  grand-uncle,  General 
George  Washington,  and  the  gold-headed  cane  bequeathed  to  him  by  Doctor 
Benjamin  Franklin. 

These  interesting  relics  I  wish  to  be  presented  through  ycu,  my  dear 
Sir,  to  the  Congress  of  the  United  States  on  behalf  of  the  Nation. 

Congress  shall  dispose  of  them  as  may  seem  appropriate,  and  best  cal- 
culated to  keep  in  memory  the  character  and  services  of  those  two  illustri- 
ous fouuders  of  our  Republic. 

I  am,  Sir,  with  esteem,  yours, 
To  Hon.  George  W.  Summers,  Samuel  T.  Washington. 

House  of  Representatives. 


24  -  The  Swords  of-  Washington.  [Jan. 

The  motion  to  amend  was  agreed  to,  and  the  resolution  of  the  gentleman 
from  Virginia  was  agreed  to. 

The  relics  referred  to  in  this  joint  resolution  were  the  sword  of 
Washington  and  the  gold-headed  cane  left  to  him  by  Doctor  Frank- 
lin, which  was  also  presented  to  Congress  on  the  same  occasion  by 
Samuel  T.  Washington,  but  that  portion  of  Mr.  Summers's  speech 
relating  to  the  cane  was  not  quoted,  as  this  article  was  intended  to 
be  confined  to  the  swords. 

Concerning  the  final  disposition  of  the  four  remaining  swords, 
the  authentic  records  are  as  follows  : 

The  sword  left  by  General  Washington  to  his  nephew,  William 
Augustine  Washington,  son  of  his  half  brother  Augustine,  and  who 
by  the  terms  of  the  will  had  the  first  choice,  was  left  by  him  to  his 
son,  the  Honorable  George  Corbin  Washington,  of  Georgetown. 
D.  C,  and  by  him  to  his  son  Col.  Lewis  "William  Washington  of 
''Belle viewy'  near  Halltown,  Jefferson  County,  W.  Va.,  and  the 
same  who  was  captured  by  John  Brown's  men  at  the  time  of  his 
notorious  raid  upon  Harper'^  Ferry  in  1855. 

The  sword  which  was  left  by  General  AVashington  to  his  nephew 
Judge  Bushrod  Corbin  Washington,  and  who  had  the  fourth  choice, 
also  passed  into  the  possession  of  the  above-named  Col.  Lewis  Wil- 
liam Washington.  See  extracts  from  the  will  of  the  Hon.  George 
Corbin  Washington,  deceased,  of  which  the  original  is  of  record  in 
the  office  of  Register  of  Wills,  at  Rockville,  Montgomery  County, 
Maryland. 

******** 

"  1  give  and  bequeathe  to  my  said  son.  Lewis  William  Washington,  the 
sword  of  General  George  Washington,  devised  to  me  by  my  father  (Col. 
William  Augustine  Washington),  and  also  the  sword  and  pistol  (one  of  them 
being  lost)  of  the  said  General  George  Washington,  devised  to  me  by  my 
uncle  Bushrod  Washington." 

Will  proven  July  2i,  18o4,  at  Rockvilie,  Montgomery  County,  Maryland. 

Extract  from  Judge  Bushrod  Corbin  Washington's  will : 

"  14th  Item.  The  sword  left  to  me  by  General  George  Washington,  I 
give  to  the  aforesaid  George  C  Washington,  under  the  same  injunction 
that  it  was  left  to  me." 

In  order  to  make  the  history  of  the  last  two  above-mentioned 
swords  complete,  the  writer  addressed  Major  James  Barrpll  Wash- 
ington, son  of  the  late  Col.  Lewis  William  Washington,  now  asso- 
ciated with  the  Baltimore  &  Ohio  It.  K.  Co.,  at  Pittsburg,  and  re- 
ceived a  prompt  reply.  As  his  letter  fully  covers  the  question  in 
point,  it  is  here  submitted  entire,  in  so  far  as  it  relates  to  the  history 
of  the  swords  : 


1894.]  -         The  Swords  of  Washington.  25 

Pittsburg,  Jan.  3,  1898. 
My  dear  Cousin : 

I  am  in  receipt  of  your  letter  of  the  31st  ultimo,     ***** 

The  swords  of  General  Washington,  of  which  you  write,  as  having  been 
inherited  by  my  father,  came  into  his  possession  in  1854,  as  bequests  from 
his  father. 

One  was  the  sword  sent  by  Frederick  the  Great  of  Prussia,  to  General 
Washington,  with  the  complimentary  address,  "From  the  oldest  General 
in  K  a  rope  to  the  greatest  in  the  world." 

My  groat-grand-father,  William  Augustine  Washington,  being  given  by 
the  General's  will  the  first  choice  of  the  swords,  selected  this  one. 

This  sword  was  taken  by  a  raiding  party  of  John  Brown's  men  from  my 
father's  house  near  Harper's  Ferry  in  1859,  and  delivered  to  John  Brown, 
who  wore  it  until  his  capture  by  the  U.  S.  Marines,  when  my  lather  re- 
covered it.  In  1871  it  was  sold  with  other  Y\"ashington  relics  to  the  State 
of  New  York,  and  was  placed  in  the  State  Library  at  Albany,  where,  I 
believe,  it  now  is. 

The  other  sword,  inherited  through  Judge  Bushrod  Washington,  was  the 
one  known  as  the  General's  mourning  sword  aud  was  worn  by  him  upon 
funeral  occasions.  Ail  its  mountings  are  black,  while  the  hilt  of  the  other 
one  is  of  cut  and  polished  steel,  giving  the  appearance  of  having  been  stud- 
ded with  diamonds. 

The  mourning  sword,  after  my  father's  death  in  1871,  was  given  by  his 
widow  to  her  son,  my  half-brother,  and  I  think  is  still  in  his  possession 
*  *  *  and  I  have  no  doubt  he  will  gladly  give  you  any  further  informa- 
tion about  it. 

******** 

Far  from  having  any  objection  to  your  using  my  name  in  connection 
with  these  matters,  I  think  it  would  add  to  the  authenticity  of  their  history 
to  give  the  source  from  which  the  information  was  obtained. 

Very  sincerely,  your  friend  and  relation, 

J.  B.  Washington. 

A  letter  of  later  date  than  the  above,  from  Mrs.  Ella  B,  Wash- 
ington, widow  of  the  late  Col.  Lewis  William  Washington,  fully 
corroborates,  if  such  a  thing  were  considered  necessary,  the  above 
facts  as  related  by  Major  James  Barroll  Washington.  The  w  mourn- 
ing sword"  is  still  in  the  possession  of  her  son,  Mr.  AYilliam  de 
Hurtbern  Washington,  now  (1893)  residing  in  New  York  City. 

General  Washington's  nephew,  George  Lewis,  son  of  his  only 
sister,  Betty  (Washington)  Lewis,  who  married  Col.  Fielding 
Lewis,  of  I  redericksburg,  Va.,  was  the  second  name  mentioned  in 
that  clause  of  General  Washington's  will  devising  the  swords. 

The  writer  is  fortunate  in  having  before  him  an  article  which 
appeared  in  the  Baltimore  American  newspaper  of  April  23,  1889, 
giving  an  account  of  an  interview  had  with  the  Honorable  James  T. 
Bristoe  of  Maryland,  formerly  Secretary  of  State,  which  has  every 
appearance  of  truthfulness,  and  in  which  is  related  quite  a  number 
ot  historical  facts  in  relation  to  this  sword.  From  it  the  following 
extract  is  made  : 

VOL,    XLVII2.  3* 


2(3  ..  The  S words  of  Washington.  [Jan. 

"The  children  of  Colonel  Fielding  Lewis  and  his  wife,  Betty,  the  only 
sister  of  General  Washington,  were  Fielding.  George,  Elizabeth,  Lawrence, 
Robert  and  Howell.  To  his  nephew  George  Lewis,  General  Washington, 
in  his  will,  bequeathed  one  of  his  swords.  The  bequest  was  in  these  words: 
[Here  appears  in  full  that  item  of  the  will  relating  to  the  swords.]  Major 
Lewis  died  in  1821.  During  his  life  time  he  gave  the  sword  bequeathed  to 
him  to  his  eldest  son,  Samuel.  This  Samuel  Lewis  had  4  sons  and  2 
daughters  and  he  bequeathed  the  sword  to  his  eldest  son  George  W.  Lewis, 
a  prominent  lawyer  of  Westmoreland  County,  Virginia.  In  his  early  life, 
his  youngest  brother  Henry  Howell  Lewis,  now  of  Baltimore  City,  Mary- 
land, being  then  in  the  United  States  Navy,  and  the  only  military  member 
of  the  family,  having  expressed  an  earnest  desire  to  possess  the  sword  of 
Washington,  in  a  spirit  of  generosity  he  gave  it  to  him,  and  afterwards  by 
his  last  will  and  testament  confirmed  the  gift." 

It  would  appear  that  Mr.  Henry  Howell  Lewis,  who  died  in 
Baltimore,  Maryland,  March  17,  1*93,  must  have  given  this  sword 
to  his  daughter,  Miss  Virginia  Tayloe  Lewis,  several  years  prior  to 
his  death,  as  the  following  copy  of  a  bill  introduced  into  the  Senate 
by  Mr.  Evarts  oc' Aew  York,  March  31,  1888,  would  indicate  : 

A  Bill 
Authorizing  and  directing  the  Secretary  of    War  to  purchase  from  Miss 
Virginia  Tayloe  Lewis  a  sword  of  Washington. 

Whereas,  General  George  Washington,  by  the  provisions  of  his  will,  be- 
queathed to  certain  of  his  relatives  the  several  swords  of  which  he  died 
possessed ;  and 

Whereas,  among  these  is  the  sword  which  is  of  exceeding  historic  value, 
as  that  worn  by  him  upon  the  occasion  of  resigning  his  commission  at  An- 
napolis, and  at  his  public  receptions  while  President:      Therefore, 

Be  it  Enacted  by  the  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives  of  the  United 
States  of  America  in  Congress  Assembled,  that  the  Secretary  of  War  be  and  is 
hereby  authorized  and  directed  to  purchase  from  Miss  Virginia  Tayloe  Lewis, 
a  direct  descendant  of  George  Lewis,  the  devisee  under  the  said  will,  she 
being  the  present  owner,  the  said  sword,  for  the  sum  of  twenty  thousand 
dollars;  and  that  such  sum  be  paid  out  of  any  money  in  the  Treasury  not 
otherwise  appropriated,  and  when  so  purchased,  the  same  to  be  deposited 
in  the  State  Department. 

As  final  action  was  not  taken  by  Congress  upon  this  bill  intro- 
duced by  Senator  Evarts,  it  is  presumed  that  the  sword  is  still 
(1893)  in  Miss  Lewis's  possession. 

George  Steptoe  Washington  of  Harewood,  Virginia,  now  in  Jef- 
ferson County,  W.  Va.,  second  child  of  Col.  Samuel  Washington, 
oldest  full  brother  of  General  Washington  by  his  fourth  wife  Ann. 
(Steptoe)  Washington,  by  the  terms  of  the  will  had  the  third  choice 
of  the  five  swords.  Alter  his  decease  the  sword  selected  by  him 
passed  into  the  possession  of  his  son  William  Temple  Washington, 
who  owned  a  handsome  and  valuable  estate  adjoining  "  Harewood," 
called  "Meg  Willie." 

A  few  years  prior  to  the  late  civil  war,  Mr.  William  T.  Wash- 
ington removed  with  his  family  from  Jefferson  County,  Virginia,  to 


1394.]  -         Deaths  in  Slratham,  JV.  H.  27 

the  vicinity  of  Falmouth,  nearly  opposite  to  the  town  of  Fredericks- 
burg^ on  the  Rappahannock  River. 

After  the  beginning  of  hostilities  and  the  occupancy  of  the  Federal 
armies  of  the  country  in  that  vicinity,  Mr.  Washington's  residence 
and  plantation  fell  within  the  Federal  lines,  and  so  remained  during 
the  greater  portion  of  the  four  years  struggle. 

La  consequence,  it  is  thought,  of  pecuniary  embarrassments,  due 
doubtless  largely  to  the  vicissitudes  of  war,  Mr.  Washington  parted 
with  this  sword' to  Mr.  George  Wi  Riggs,  at  that  time  a  member 
of  the  widely-known  banking  house  of  Riggs  &  Company,  Washing- 
ton. I).  C.  . 

This,  the  George  Steptoe  Washing-ton  sword,  was  deposited  at 
Mti  Vernon  in  1892,  by  the  heirs  of  the  late  George  W.  Riggs,  of 
Washington  D.  C,  where  it  may  now  be  seen. 


DEATHS  IN  STRATIIAM,  N.  H.,  COMMENCING  1741. 

kept  bv  Dea.  Samuel  Lane,  and  cor 
C.  Hardy,  Esq. 

[Continued  from  to!.  47,  page  430.] 


Transcribed  from  a  Record  kept  bv  Dea.  Samuel  Lane,  and  communicated  by  Charles 
C.  Hakdy,  Esq. 


1753. 
Dec.     21.     Samuel  Wiggins  Daughter  Died. 
Dec.     21.     the  Same  Day  Sma"  Wiggiri  another  Daur  Died. 
Dec.     22.     Satchel  Clarks  wife  Died. 
Dec.     28.     widow  Phebe  Wiggings  child  Died. 

iu  the  year  past  have  Died  iu  this  Town  57  Persons. 
1754. 
Jan.l.  [o-  3]  Thomas  Moores  Son  John  Died. 

John  Hunifords  wife  Died. 

Joseph  Youngs  child  Died. 

John  Barkers  child  Died. 

Benjn  Leavits  child  Died. 

Benjc  Rickor  Died  at  Jona11  Jone3'. 

Benj"  Potters  child  Died. 

Jonathan  Jones  Died. 

Benjamin  Leavits  little  Daur  Died. 

Bradstreet  "Wiggins  child  Died. 

James  Leavit  Died. 

Moses  Kennisons  child  Died. 

Mrs.  Coker  Died. 

Tilton  Larrance  child  Died. 

John  Wiggin  child  Died. 

Wm  Ash*  child  Died. 

Moses  Leavit  Esqr  Died. 

George  Veasey  Juur  child  Died. 

old  mr  Mathew  Thompson  Died. 


Jan. 

6. 

Jan. 

7. 

Jan. 

11. 

Jan. 

19. 

Jan. 

24. 

Jan. 

27. 

Febr. 

12. 

Feb. 

3. 

Feb. 

4. 

Feb. 

9. 

Feb. 

12. 

Feb. 

13. 

Febr. 

Feb. 

14. 

Feb. 

16. 

Feb. 

ID. 

Mar. 

22. 

Mar. 

23." 

28  -  Deaths  in  SVratham,  1ST.  II.  [Jan, 

Apr.  5.  Thomas  Cotton?  child  Died. 

Apr.  Thos  Odel  had  a  child  Dead-born. 

May  4.  old  Rebecca  Merlin  Died. 

May  28.     Daniel  MefrUs  wife  Died. 

June  5.  Richard  Palmers  wife  Died. 

June  9.  Dn.  Edward  Taylers  child  Died. 

June  17.  IJenj  Barkers  child  Died. 

Aug.  23.  Samuel  Wiggins  child  Died. 

Sept.  4.  Eliohalet  Wiggins  child  Died  at  his  fathers. 

Sept.  o.  Abraham  Tiltons  child  Died. 

Sept.  9.  Sachel  darks  child  Died. 

Sept.  17.  Audr  Wiggin  Jimr  wives  Daur  Dolly  Swett  Died. 

Sept.  20.  Tuftiu  Wiggins  little  Daur  Died. 

Sept.  27.  Tuftin  Wiggins  child  Died. 

Oct.  2.  Tuftiu  Wiggins  child  Died. 

Oct.  12.  Dn.  Robinsons  Granddaughter  Lidia  Meril  Died. 

Oct.  12.  Daniel  Masons  child  Died. 

Oct.  29.  John  Thirstons  wife  Died. 

Dec.  24.  widow  Barkers  Negro  child  Died. 

in  the  year  past  have  Died  in  this  Town  38  Persons. 
1755 

Jan.  Joseph  Hoits  young  child  Died. 

Jan.  15.  John  Thirstons  child  Died. 

Felr.  4.  widow  Sarah  Leavit  Juur  Died. 

Febr.  5.  Ll  William  Moores  child  Died. 

March.  '7.  Ebenr  Barkers  child  Died. 

Mar.  7.  Wni  Moore  Junr  wile  Died. 

Mar.  11.  old  Mrs  Shaw  Died. 

Apr.  2.  Richard  Galleys  child  Died. 

Apr.  4.  a  child  Died  that  lived  at  John  Hoags. 

Apr.  22.  Ezra  Barkers  Wife  Died. 

May  26.  old  Mrs.  Hill  ye  mother  of  Joshua  Hill  Died  at  Daniel  Aliens. 

May  31.  Josiah  Aliens  child  Died. 

June  28.  Enoch  Merrils  wife  Died. 

Sept.  21.  Theophiius  Rundlets  wives  Mother  Died. 

Oct.  12.  Morris  Flings  child  Died. 

in  the  year  past  have  Died  in  this  Town  15  persons. 
1756. 

Jan.  15.  Sam1  Wiggins  child  Died. 

Jan.  23.  Col.  And?  Wiggin  Died,     aged  about  86. 

March  17.  the  widow  Joanna  Chase  Died. 

Mar.  26.  Volintine  Clarks  child  Died. 

May  4.  Iccabod  Clarks  child  Died. 

May  15.  Iccabod  Clark  another  child  Died. 

May  29.  Miles  Leavits  child  Died. 

June  4.  Iccabod  Clarks  child  Died, 

June  8.  Iccabod  Clark  another  child  Died, 

Oct.  12.  Moses  Thirston  Died. 

Nov.  10.  Thomas  Briers  wife  Died. 

Miles  Leavit  Died  at  Albany  this  year. 

Dec.  21.  Lieut.  Thomas  Rollings  Died. 

Dec.  29.  David  Jewels  wife  Died. 

in  the  year  past  have  Died  14  persons. 


1894.]  -       Deaths  in  Strcttham,  X.  71. 


old  mr  Kick1  Crocket  Died. 
Thomas  Chase  Shot  to  Death  by  his  son. 
Dol.  Jewets  child. 

George  Veazev  Junr  young  child  Died. 
Moses  Chases  "wife  Died. 
Jude  Aliens  young  child  Died. 
Revd  Mr  Adams  young  child  Died. 
Sam1  Marvels  child  Died. 
Tiltou  Larrance  young  child  Died, 
Enoch  Merrils  young  child  Died. 
Ebenr  Barkers  child  Dietf. 
Ezra  Barkers  child  Died, 
widow  Lydia  Leavits  child  Died. 
Enoch  M'erriis  2nd  wife  Died. 
.  John  Leavits  Son  Drown*. 
the  widow  Foisom  (Thos  Odeis  Mother)  Died. 
Rebecca  Sceaveys  child  Died. 
Lieut  Simon  Wiggin  Died. 
Ephraim  Leavit  Died. 

Thos  Chase  son  of  ye  wid  Lydia  Chase  Died  coming  from  Hal- 
ifax. 
Simon  Pottle  Died. 
William  Calleys  Son  Died. 
,  Cotton  Dockums  child  Died. 
Samuel  Bovnton  Died. 
Mr  Pottles' Daur  Judith  Died. 
Anna  Pottle  Died  at  mr  Pottles. 
Joseph  Wiggins  Son  Jonathan  Died. 
Bradstret  Wiggin  Died. 
Richard  Palmers  child  Died. 
Ephrm  Greens  child  Died, 
the  widow  Mary  Mason  Died. 
Sam'  Clark  Died. 
Jn°  Stockbridges  child  Died. 
Abner  Thirstons  child  Died. 
Sam1  Gates  child  Died. 
Walter  Wiggin  Junr  child  Died, 
in  the  year  past  have  Died  36  Persons. 
1758. 
Jan.      15.     Jonau  Pipers  young  child  Died. 

Sam1  Goodhue  a  young  child  Died. 

Sam1  Pevys  child  Died. 

Joseph  Hoiis  child  Died. 

George  Veazey  Junr  wife  Died. 

Mary  Thirston  Died  at  Enoch  Mervils. 

John  Wiggins  Grandson  Drowned. 

Abraham  Morgan  Died. 

the  widow  Mary  Wiggins  child  Died. 

W"  Hash  child  Died. 

the  wid.  Palmer  (Tuftin  WW-lis  Mother)  Died. 

Sam1  Marbles  child  Died. 

Tuftin  Wiggins  wife  Died. 


1757. 

Jan. 

7. 

Jan. 

15. 

Jan. 

31. 

Mar. 

2. 

Mar. 

18. 

Mar. 

29 

Apr. 

15. 

Apr. 

IS. 

May 

23. 

June 

22. 

June 

•>o. 

June 

2G. 

July 

2. 

July 

6. 

July 

8. 

July 

27. 

July 

31. 

Aug. 

11. 

Aug. 

11. 

Aug. 

Sept. 

2. 

Sept. 

5. 

Sept. 

16. 

Sept. 

17. 

Sept. 

27. 

Sept. 

28. 

Oct. 

2. 

Oct. 

8. 

Oct. 

16. 

Oct. 

19. 

Oct. 

22. 

Nov. 

15. 

Nov. 

27. 

Nov. 

29. 

Dec. 

18. 

Dec. 

19. 

Apr. 

27. 

Apr. 

29. 

May 

17. 

June 

24. 

July 

3. 

July 

7. 

July 

16. 

Aug. 

3. 

Aug. 

4. 

Aug. 

22. 

Sept. 

6. 

30 


Deaths  in  Stratham,  JV".  H. 


p« 


Sept 
Oct. 

22. 

27. 

Nov. 

10. 

Nov. 

10. 

Nov. 

22. 

Nor. 

26. 

Nov. 

29. 

Nov. 

30. 

Dec. 

1. 

Dec. 

4. 

Dec. 

7. 

Dec. 

21. 

Dec. 

24. 

Dec. 

25. 

Dec. 

27. 

Dec. 

29. 

Dec. 

29. 

ii 

the 

1759. 

Jan. 

4. 

Jan. 

5. 

Jan. 

10. 

Jan. 

11. 

Jan. 

12. 

Jan. 

12. 

Jau. 

14. 

Jan. 

31. 

Jan. 

31. 

Febr. 

8. 

Feby. 

14. 

Feb. 

19. 

Marcl 

5. 

Marcl 

18. 

Marcl 

18. 

March  27. 

Marcr 

31. 

Apr. 
Ap<\ 
Apr. 
May 

20. 
24. 
27. 
13. 

May 
May 

May 
June 

25. 

20. 

28. 

4. 

June 

23. 

June 

24. 

Aug. 

3. 

Aug. 

5. 

Aug. 
Aug. 
Aug. 

10. 

0. 

Sept. 

4. 

Benja  Barkers  Infant  child  Died. 
Benja11  Cottons  child  Died. 
Joseph  Morrils  child  Died. 
Elisha  Leavits  child  Died. 
Jnip.es  Mcrrils  child  Died. 
Elisha  Leavit  Died. 
Andrew  Wiggiii  Esqr  child  Died. 
David  Jewels  child  Died. 
Sam1  Hardy  Died. 
Andr  Wiggiii  Esq.  child  Died. 
Moses  Chases  child  Dead  born. 
Sam1  Gates  child  Died. 
John  Leavits  Junr  child  Died. 
John  Clarks  child  Died. 
Joshua  Kenisons  wife  Died. 
Daniel  Masons  Son  Nicolus  Died. 
Daniel  Masons  little  Daughter  Died. 
year  past  have  Died  30  persons. 

Daniel  Masons  son  "Ward  Died. 

Moses  Boyntons  little  Daur  Died. 

John  Kundlets  child  Died. 

John  Rundlet  another  child  Died. 

Sam1  Neals  child  Died. 

Benja  Barkers  child  Died. 

Moses  Chases  wife  Died. 

wid.  Elizabeth  Leavits  child  Died. 

Cotton  Dockums  child  Died. 

Daniel  Merrils  child  Died. 

Daniel  Merril  another  child  Died. 

Sometime  in  Jan17  Jude  Aliens  young  child  Died. 

Mr.  John  YViggin  Died. 

John  Thirstons  first  Twin  Died. 

John  Thirstons  other  Twin  Died. 

Simon  Wiggins  child  Died. 

John  Thirstons  child  Died. 

widow  Annis  Lary  Died  at  Moses  Kennisons. 

Sten  Bordmans  child  Died. 

Abr"  Keimison  Died. 

L<  Wm  Moores  wife  Died. 

Joseph  Mason  Jun1  wife  Died. 

The-'  Odels  Daur  Lydia  Died. 

John  Hiltous  child  Died. 

Joseph  Hoits  wife  Died. 

Jonan  Jones8  young  child  Died. 

John  Speeds  child  Died. 

Joseph  Clarks  child  Died. 

Nath1  Averys  child  Died. 

Tho6  Runnels  child  Died. 

Satchel  Clarks  child  Died. 

Satchel  Claris  young  twin  Died. 

John  Barkers  child  Died  at  Hampton  Buried  here. 

widow  Mary  Wiggins  child  Died. 


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Sept.      6.     Samuel  Aliens  DauJ  Died. 

Sept.     21.     Sam1  Pottles  child  Died. 

Oct.        7.     wid.  Lydia  Leavits  child  Died. 

Oct.       25.     Stephen  Thirstons  child  Died. 

Nov.     15.     Ephrm  Greens  child  Died. 

Nov.  [18  ?]  Ephra  Greens  other  child  Died. 

Nov.     SO.     Jacoh  Loe*  [perhaps  Lee9]  child  Died. 

Dec.       7.     Richard  Scammins  child  Died. 

Dec.     21.     Rich'1  Scammin  another  child  Died. 

Dec.     22.     James  Merrils  child  Died. 

Dec.  Nath1  Watsons  child  Died. 

David  Jewels  child  Died, 
in  the  year  past  have  Died  46  persons. 
1760. 

Margaret  Grace  child  Died  at  Scammins. 

Joseph  Robinsons  child  Died. 

John  Taylers  child  Died. 

John  Jewets  child  Died. 

George  Veazey  Juiv  child  Died. 

John  Robinsons  child  Died. 

George  Veazey  Junr  child  Died. 

Dorothy  Jewets  child  Died. 

mr  Joshua  Neal  Died. 

l>enja  Leavits  child  Died. 

Josiah  Chases  Child  Died. 

Moses  Bpyntons  child  Died. 

Joshua  Kennison  Died  in  the  army. 

Mitte  Palmer  Died. 

Mary  Runnels  Died. 

Martha  Doller  Died  at  Jn°  Leavits. 

Cotton  Dockums  wife  Died, 

Joseph  Hoag  Died. 

David  Stevens  Son  Died  in  ye  army. 

Joshua  Rolings  Son  Elisha  Died  coming  from  ye  Army. 

— Wentworth  Died  w"1  ye  Small  Pos  at  Murrays. 
In  the  past  year  have  Died  21  Persons. 

[To  be  continued.]  ■ 


Jan. 

Pel/ 

9. 

Feb. 

Marc 

h  14. 

Marc) 

b  23. 

March  29. 

Apr. 

20. 

Apr. 

21. 

April 

28. 

May 

4. 

Jims 

July 

9. 

Aug. 

29. 

Oct. 

11. 

Oct. 

24. 

Oct. 

25. 

Nov. 

12. 

Nov. 

Dec. 

17. 

LETTERS   OF   COL.   THOMAS   WESTBROOK 
AND    OTHERS, 

RELATIVE    TO    INDIAN    AFFAIRS    IN    jIAINE. 

Communicated  by  William  Blake  Tra^k,  A.M.,  of  Dorchester,  Mass. 

[Continued  from  Vol.  xlvii..  page  453.] 

Marblehead,  Oct0:  4,  1725. 
lIond  S* 

Our  not  hearing  of  any  very  late  damages  done  by  the  Indians,  and 
Cap'  Smith's  being  still  detain'd  by  them  after  the  limited  time,  gives  me 
some  hopes  that  we  shall,  in  a  little  time,  be  so  happy  as  to  have  peace  in 


32  Letters  of  Col.  Thomas  JVestbrooh  and  others.         [Jan. 

our  borders,  that  we  may  again  improve  and  ipjoy  our  Eastern  Plantations. 
And  that  which  I  most  build  my  hopes  on  is,  that  I  think  that  the  eyes  of 
the  Governm*  seem  to  be  more  open  now  than  they  have  bin  formerly,  and 
are  more  inclin'd  to  taike  those  measures  which  may  secure  the  honour  and 
Interest  of  the  province,  &  the  Indians  have  justice  done  them,  the  latter  of 
which,  without  we  have  a  Tender  regard  to,  we  may  not  Expeckt  a  lasting 
peace. 

J  snail  now  give  you  my  thoughts  on  some  heads,  which  I  think,  very 
nessesary  to  Establish  our  Intirest  with  them  Tribes.  And  the  first  thing 
I  shall  speake  to,  is  the  Affaire  of  the  lands  they  claime,  which,  I  believe, 
will  be  the  only  dilicult  point,  that  the  Goverm4  will  have  to  Treat  with 
them  on.  I  am  very  sensible  it  was  the  greatest  handle  the  Jesuites  made 
use  of,  whereby  they  mov'd  them  to  make  Warr,  by  telling  them  it  was  our 
intent  to  take  away  all  their  CouTTtrey,  not  only  that  we  bought  of  them, 
but  what  we  had  not  bought,  and  to  make  them  &  their  Children,  in  time, 
miserable.  It's  my  Oppinion,  if  there  were  some  measures  tackeu  to  Assure 
them  that  some  Considerable  part  of  that  Country  should  aliwayes  remaiue 
to  them  &  their  Children,  to  plant  and  Improve,  and  that  no  man  should  be 
able  to  bye  it,  and  if  they  did,  it  should  not  be  valide,  while  they  or  any  of 
their  Children  were  alive,  As  it  is  at  Natick,  and  some  other  parts  of  our 
Province,  where  we  have  justly  made  reserves  for  them.  If  we  put  It  to 
ourselves  &  Examine  by  ye  golden  rule  of  doing  as  we  would  be  done  by, 
I  think,  we  should  chearfully  come  into  it.  And,  as  I  remember,  at  the 
last  treaty,  they  had  no  Assurance  that  their  planting  feilds  at  Nerigwalk, 
and  other  Planting  grounds,  should  be  aliwayes  injoyed  by  them.  Many 
of  them  often  tould  me,  that  they  Expeckted  the  English  would,  in  a  little 
time,  endeavour  to  tacke  them  away,  as  they  had  done  by  the  Western  In- 
dians. We  should  Consider,  they  have  a  Native  right  to  all  the  lauds  they 
have  not  sould.  I  have  often  admired  at  the  Weakness  of  many  People, 
when  they  have  said,  if  We  should  Continue  any  land  to  them  they  would, 
emediatelv  sell  it  to  the  french.  and  they  would  settle  it;  but  no  man  that 
is  acquainted  with  that  part  of  the  Countrey  can  think  so,  when  there  might 
be  so  many  reasons  given  why  they  would  not.  Besides,  there  might  be  Ex- 
ceptions made  against  it.  No  frenchman,  that  is  a  man  of  any  Considera- 
tion, who  is  not  under  our  Governm'  would  venture  to  lay  out  his  substance 
near  so  great  a  Province  when  they  aliwayes  he  lyable  to  be  Destroyed  & 
We  have  an  instance  to  Confirme  this  iD  the  settlement  the  french  made  at 
S'  Johns  River,  where  the  Indians  gave  them  Liberty  to  plant  &  Improve, 
who,  after  they  were  Destroy'd  by  Capt  Southarick,  never  made  any  more 
atempt.  Notwithstanding  we  have  had  so  long  a  peace  with  France  It- 
must  be  Confest,  the  Indians  are  barbarous  &  Cruell  to  us  in  time  of  Warr, 
and  God  makes  use  of  them  as  a  rod  in  his  hand,  and  its  to  be  fear'd  he 
uses  it  with  more  severity  on  us  because  we  have  not  dealt  justly  by  them 
in  many  things.  I  can  think  of  nothing  that  would  sooner  macke  them 
easy  in  this  Affaire  of  yr  Lands  then  by  letting  them  know  what  great  caire 
the" Governm1  has  taiken  to  Confirme  the  lands  to  the  Naticks  &  other  In- 
dians in  pur  Province,  and  It  would  not  be  amiss  that  some  of  our  Indians, 
that  would  maike  the  best  Appearance,  be  at  the  Treaty,  &  there  Assure 
them  of  the  great  proffit  &  advantage  that  they  reap  by  it,  whereby  they 
are  babied  to  raise  Corne,  sheep  and  Cattle,  &  that  many  of  them,  that 
are  industrious,  live  Aery  well. 

If  the  Governm'  should  ereckt  Traiding  houses  (which  I  think  very  nes- 
sesary to  keep  them  in  our  Interest)  It's  my  Oppinion  that  it  would  give 


1894.]     Letters  of  Col.  Thomas  Westbrook  and  others.  33 

more  satisfaction  not  to  Confine  the  traide  to  them  houses  only,  for  they 
are  a  jealous  people,  and  love  freedome,  &  if  they  bought  cheaper  there 
then  others  could  afford,  and  they  had  not  liberty  to  trye,  they  would  not, 
so  apparently,  see  their  Obligation  &   Dependance  on  y'   Publick.      As  to 
letting  them  have  rum,  I  think  it  best,  it  be  not  wholly  restrain'd  from  them, 
for  there  are  many  amongst  them,  that  maike  a  Temperate,  moderate,  use 
of  it,  and  never  Disguise  themselves  at  all,  &  many  of  them  will  not  drinke 
any,  believe  it  best  that  matter  be  left  to  the  [prjudence  of  them  that  are 
interested  with  the  stores,  and  that  they  be  Exceeding  cautious  before  they 
are  well  acquainted  with  the  Indian  that  they  don't  let  any  of  them  have 
more  than  a  dram  at  a  time,  but,  I  need  not  say  any  thing  more  on   this 
head,  the  temptation  of  selling  them  any  for  pro  flit  being  wholly  tacken   of 
from  them  that  have  the  caire  of  the  stores.     If  they  be  men  of  any  princi- 
palis of  Honour  &  justice  and  have  the  good  of  their  countrey  at  heart,  and 
I  think  few  or  none  will  sell  them  rum  only  for  ye  Proffit  they  get  on  it, 
the  Indians  giving  them  so  much  trouble  after  they  are  made  drunck  which 
made  the  most  sober,  considerate,  indians  tell  me,  that  nothing  would  more 
supress  that  base  Custome  than  by  ereckting  Publick  stores,  for  it  was   the 
temptation  of  getting  proffit  on  other  goods  that  eaus'd  many  people  to  let 
them  have  rum,  and  many  of  our  quarrells  with  them  arose  from  their 
drunken  revills.     I  think  it  would  be  best,  also,  in  my  Oppinion,  that  those 
Truckmasters  should  have  orders  not  to  trust  any  Indian,  for  it  might  be 
a  Temptation  to   them,  as  it  was  in  South  Carolina,  in  the  last  Warr  they 
had.     After  they  are  a  great  deale  in  debt  to  make  Warr  and  then  all  is 
paid,  besides  its  aa  Incouragm*  to  Idleness,  and  I  Observ'd  many  quarrells 
with  them  arose  from  our  demanding  what  was  due  from  them.     And  yet 
there  are  some   of  the  most  Considerate  influencing  men  amongst  them 
which  I  have  Observed  after  they  have  bin  hunting  a  great  while  have  met 
with  little  or  no  success,  and  therby  their  familyes  brought  to  be  very   nes- 
sesitous,  now  if  it  were  left  to  those  that  are  intrusted  with  the  stores,  at 
such  times  to  give  them  a  small  matter  of  Genie  or  other  nessesaryes  that 
they  stand  in  need  of,  the  prudent  timeing  of  those  gifts  would  greatly  in- 
gage  them.     As  to  bringing  them  over  to  our  Religion,  I  hope  by  Gods 
Blessing,  in  time,  it  might  be  Effeckted.     And  I  hope  the  publick  will  be  so 
happy  in  their  Choice  to  have  those  men  whose  Conversation  will  be  Ex- 
emplary and  inofensive,  for  the  indians  will  be  most  with  them.     1  Observ'd 
the  Jesuits  allways  gain'd  more  on  them  by  their  blamless,  watchful  car- 
rage  to  them  then  by  any  other  of  their  artful]  methods.     Example  is  be- 
fore preceipt  wth  them,  their  Religion  being  all  superficiall,  &  they  having 
but  little  internal  sence  of  their  duty  when  at  their  Devotions.     If  the 
Governm'  would  give  those  that  have  the  caire  of  those  houses  some  rules 
and  methods  to  use  with  them,  which  they  in  their  wisdome  think   propper 
to  gaine  them  over  to  the  protestant  Faith,  I  have  great  reason  to  think,  by 
Gods  Blessing,  in  time  may  have  a  good  Effeckt.  but  at  present,  they  are 
so  biggotted  to  the  Romish  faith  that  it  will  require  great  patience  &  strength 
of  Resolution  in  those  endeavours.     There  might  be  many  things  conserted 
which  at  present  does  not  Ocur  to  my  minde,  which  I  hope  the  publick  will 
not  be  wanting  in  if  they  should  come  into  auy  termes  with  them.     I'me 
sure  if  we  look  into  Govern1"  Burnet's  last  speach,  whereby  be  is  laying 
downe  the  great  and  happy   Consiquence  of  their  keeping  in  good  termes 
with  those  Tribes  of  Indians  bordering  ou  him,  And  the  freuch  on  the  other 
side  of  us  Assidously  &  Artfully  plotting  and   Contriving  to  keep  them  in 
their  intirest,  it  highly  conserns  this  Province  to  taike  some  methods  to  get 

VOL.    XLVIII.  4 


34  Letters  of  Col.  Thomas  Westbrooh  and  others.         [Jan. 

them  into  our  Interest  who  have  suffered  so  much  &  which  now  groans 
under  the  burden  of  this  unhappy  Warr. 

Sr  if  you  think  my  thoughts  on  these  things  may  be  of  service  desire  they 
may  be  Communicated. 

To  Coll.  Stephen  Minot  ,    Yor  Obed1  son 

Merch*  John  Minot. 

In  Bostou. 
Mass.  Arch.  52:  294,  295,  296. 


Sir,  His  Hon'  the  L<  Gov.  (who  is  very  ill  of  the  Gout)  bids  me  tell 
you,  That  you  must  dispatch  the  enclosed  to  Cpt.  Smith  without  a  Minutes 
Delay  It  being  of  great  Consequence  that  he  shd  soon  receive  it. 

His  Honr  Having  promised  the  Indians  enlisted  by  Cpt.  Bourn  (being  all 
those  of  the  County  of  Barnstable)  to  dismiss  them  in  the  Fall  that  so  they 
attend  their  Whale  Fishing,  directs  you  as  soon  as  you  have  Opportunity 
to  send  them  up  to  Boston  in  Order  to  their  Return  Home  &  let  none  of 
them  be  detain'd  on  any  Pretence  whatsoever.  The  thirty  Indians  of 
Bristol  County  must  be  Continued  till  further  Order.  Take  special  Care 
that  the  Garrisons  be  strengthen'd  &  protected  &  that  Scouts  be  sent  out 
as  often  as  the  Number  of  the  Men  will  allow.  His  Hon1  has  sent  Orders 
to  Cpt.  Grant  to  march  to  Norridgewock  with  his  Compa  of  voluntiers. 
You  must  take  Care  that  the  Design  be  conceal'd,  And  give  him  what 
Assistance  is  necessary.  In  your  last  List  you  sent  no  ace'  of  the  Soldiers 
that  were  dead,  deserted,  kill'd  or  Dismiss'd,  Weh  Honour  expects  as  soon 
as  may  be,  [Hand  writing  of 

To  Col.  Westbrook.     [No  date.]  Secretary  Yvlllard.] 

Mass.  Arch.  52  :  297. 


[Gov.  Dummer  seems  concerned  at  the  Indians  delay  of  Coming  in,  but 
directs  Capt  Thomas  Smith  to  remain  at  St  Georges  till  further  order.  The 
Indians  having  signified  their  doubts  of  being  ready  in  forty  days  the  Gov- 
ernor expresses  his  readiness  to  lengthen  out  the  time  so  far  as  necessary, 
without  a  limitation  of  fourteen  days,  "  there  not  being  the  least  Founda- 
tion for  it  in  the  Transactions  of  the  Governor*  with  the  Indians."  And 
when  these  Penobscot  Indians  come  in,  Capt.  Smith  is  desired  to  forward 
them  to  Boston  without  delav.] 
[No  date."] 

Mass.  Arch.  52:  297. 


[The  Lieut.  Governor  directs  Secretary  Willard  to  inform  Col.  Pepper- 
rell  that  his  letter  of  the  29th  was  received,  and  that  according  to  the 
Colonel's  desire,  he  sends  a  commission  for  an  Ensign,  which  is  enclosed. 
"As  to  Breddeanes  Debt  to  you,  you  have  not  said  that  it  was  contracted 
before  he  entered  into  the  Service,  Wch  is  the  only  Case  wherein  the  Law 
provides  for  the  Dismission  of  soldiers.  However,  his  Honr  hopes  he  shall 
soon  have  Occasion  to  dismiss  him  with  many  others  in  the  service,  And  in 
the  Mean  Time  Advises  you  to  secure  yourself  out  of  the  Mau's  Wages."] 

Mass.  Arch.  52:  298. 


[Captains  Grant  and  Bragdou  are  instructed  to  march  to  Norridgewock 


1894.]       Letters  of  Col.  Thomas.  Westbrook  and  others.  35 

after  the  enemy,  "Taking  effectual  Care  that  no  Hostility  be  acted  by  you 
any  where  to  the  Eastwd  of  the  Kennebeck  River,  but  at  Norridgewock, 
And  that  Nothing  be  done  on  that  side  the  River  contrary  to  the  Cessation 
agreed  on  with  the  Penobscot  Tribe.  You  must  be  very  exact  iu  your 
Journal  iu  Noting  down  every  Thing  that  is  worthy  of  your  Observation,. 
&  send  an  Ace'  of  your  Proceedings."] 

Mass.  Arch.  52:  298.  -      ^g^gg^ 

May  it  Please  your  ITonr 

I  recd  your  Hon"  Orders  from  Secretary  Willard  Esqr  Dated  the  4th' 
Curr'  at  Portsmouth  where  I  had  been  s.  day  or  two.  I  immediately  sent 
forward  Capt  Smith  and  the  next  morning  came  to  Berwick  to  forward  Capt 
Grant  in  his  Orders  pursuant  to  your  Hon"  Directions,  but  he  march'd  out 
four  or  five  days  before.  I  sent  Orders  to  the  respective  Officers  to  deliver 
the  Indians  Anns  and  Ammunition  to  Mr  Mountfort  and  then  send  them  to. 
Boston  by  the  first  Conveyance.  RP  Secretary  did  not  inform  me  that  the- 
Cessation  of  arms  was  out,  but  by  your  Hon"  Orders  to  Cap'  Grant  it  seems 
to  me  it  is  over,  however,  not  being  certain,  I  shall  not  give  any  Orders  to 
ye  Eastward  of  Kennebec  River  till!  have  your  Hon"  particular  Directions. 
The  Officers  in  general  are  very  urgent  to  go  to  Boston  to  make  up  their 
Rolls,  particularly  Cap1  Canady  whom  I  have  assur'd  I  wou'd  ask  your 
Honr  for  leave.  I  am  Your  Hon"  most 

Berwick  OctoV  7th,  1725.  Dutifull  serv' 

P.S.     I  am  not  Certain  where  Thos  Westbrook. 

Cap'  Grant  is  marching,  but  by  what 
I  understand  from  ye  People  here, 
he  is  ouely  ranging  on  ye  heads  of  ye 
Towns,  &  will  be  in  again  iu  four  or 
five  days         I  am  ut  Supra.     T.  W. 

Mass.  Arch.  52:  299. 


Sir,  Since  my  last  to  you  I  have  no  other  Advice  from  the  Penobscot 
Indians  but  that  they  have  sent  to  Canada  to  call  in  their  People  that  are 
there  to  our  Treaty  at  Boston,  And  that  those  of  them  that  come  in  to  S' 
Georges  make  strong  Professions  of  their  Disposition  to  Peace,  &  say  they 
wait  only  for  the  Return  of  the  Messengers  from  Canada. 

If  the  War  should  continue  after  all  these  Overtures  I  shall  endeavour 
by  the  Help  of  God  to  push  it  on  the  next  Winter  with  more  vigour  than 
ever,  And  as  the  Penobscot  Indians  retire  in  that  Season  to  a  Place  near 
Menis  &  other  Parts  of  Nova  Scotia  where  they  are  entertain'd  &  subsisted 
by  the  French,  I  am  thinking  to  send  a  Force  there  to  dislodge  them.  But 
shall  do  Nothing  in  this  Affair  without  your  Privity  &  Approbation,  As 
you  have  his  Majte3  Commission  for  ye  Governm'  of  that  Countrey.  And  I 
must  pray  you  would  take  this  Proposal  into  your  Consideration  &  give  me 
your  Answer  to  it  as  soon  as  possible.  [William  Dummer.] 

[To  L'  Govr  Armstrong,  no  date.] 

Mass.  Arch.  52  :  302. 


May  it  please  your  Honour, 

Being  iuform'd  of  ye  Arrival  of  ye  Heads  or  Representatives  of  y' 


3b*  British  Officers  serving  in  America.  [Jan. 

several  Tribes  of  ye  Indians  in  Order  for  a  Peace,  I  humbly  take  Leave  to 
acquaint  Your  Hon18  That  they  have  one  of  my  Schooners  in  their  Hands, 
wch  they  took  from  me  some  Time  ye  Summer  before  last. 

The  last  Time  ye  Indians  were  at  Boston  I  came  up,  hoping  to  have  re- 
deem'd  my  vessel,  &  accordingly  when  your  Honr  met  wih  ys  Counsel  to 
have  an  Interview  w01  tliem  I  prefer'd  a  Petition,  Praying  Liberty  to  pur- 
chase herof  ye  Indian  who  had  her  in  his  Keeping  who  was  then  at  Boston, 
but  it  was  answer'd  y'  it  was  not  consistent  wth  ye  Honour  of  ye  Governm' 
to  buy  y*  of  ye  Indians  wch  they  had  unjustly  taken  away,  especially  when 
they  were  suing  for  a  Peace  w,h  us,  And  that  it  was  hoped  y*  I  &  every 
Body  else  yl  had  anything  in  their  hands  weh  they  had  taken  from  us  should 
have  it  frankly  restored  to  us,  without  buying  it  of  them,  wheu  they  came 
to  a  Treaty  wth  us.  And  therefore  I  would  humbly  entreat  y*  when  y° 
Affair  comes  in  Agitation  I  may  not  be  forgot. 

My  Neighbour  John  Chapman  has  ye  like  Request,  who  has  a  vessel  & 
servant  w's  them.  I  am  your  Hon"  most 

Marb1.!)*  Nov.  15th  1725.  Obedient  &  humble  Serv4 

[To  Lt.  Gov.  Dummer.]  Sam11  Stacey. 


Mass.  Arch.  52 :  308. 


[To  be  continncd.] 


BRITISH  OFFICERS  SERVING  IX  AMERICA,  1751-1774. 

Contributed  by  Wokthingtox  Chauncey  Ford,  Esq.,  of  Washington,  D.  C. 

Having  occasion  to  consult  the  "Army  List"  of  the  English 
army  for  the  period  of  the  French  and  Indian  Avar,  and  experienc- 
ing no  little  difficulty  in  determining  the  particular  officer  I  wished 
to  locate,  it  occurred  to  me  that  a  complete  list  of  such  officers  and 
regiments  as  served  on  the  American  continent  before  the  Revolu- 
tion, would  be  useful  to  others.  I  was  fortunate  enough  to  find  a 
complete  set  of  these  annual  "  Army  Lists  "  in  the  Astor  Library,  New 
York,  and  from  these  "official"  registers  the  following  names  have 
been  taken.  The  arrangement  in  the  "Lists"  is  by  regiments ;  but 
I  have  made  it  alphabetical,  not  only  for  greater  convenience  for 
reference,  but  also  as  better  showing  the  rise  of  an  officer  in  rank, 
and  his  change  from  regiment  to  regiment.     The  list  is  intended  to 

coo 

be  full,  and  I  have  taken  no  risks  in  confusing  names,  however 
similar,  or  however  probable  the  identity  might  appear.  W  hatever 
error  lies  in  the  list,  is  due  to  too  great  fulness  ;  and  doubtless  it 
could  be  compressed  in  some  fifty  or  sixty  instances  ;  yet  in  the 
absence  of  positive  evidence,  I  prefer  to  enter  a  name  twice,  to  run- 
ning the  danger  of  combining  the  names  of  what  might  prove  to  be 
of  different  officers. 

This  insertion  of  more  than  one  rank  under  a  name  is  made  com- 
paratively safe  by  the  custom  of  giving  the  date  of  a  commission 


1894.]  ^British  Officers  serving  in  America.  37 

conferring  rank  in  the  army  as  well  as  in  the  regiment.     For  ex- 
ample, at  a  wide  interval  the  following  entries  were  found  : 

Graydon,  Alexander,  Ens11  in  60th  23  August,  1758. 

Lieut  60th  14  September,  17 GO. 
Graydon,  Alexander,  Lieut.  44lh  10  March,  1764. 

Army  14  Septem.  17G0. 

This  may  be  read  :  Graydon  was  promoted  to  a  lieutenancy  in 
the  GOth  regiment  on  14  September,  1760,  and  received  a  commis- 
sion in  the  44th  regiment,  of  the  same  grade  or  rank,  on  10  March, 
1704.  For  general  promotion,  However,  his  lieutenant's  commis- 
sion dated  from  14  September,  1760.  In  such  cases  the  identity  of 
the  two  entries  is  fully  established.  Nor  can  there  be  any  reason- 
able doubt  in  the  instances  of  regimental  promotion,  where  in  the 
same  regiment  a  name  gradually  rises  from  ensign  upwards.  Ji  is 
only  where  a  transfer  is  made  from  one  regiment  to  another,  in  dif- 
ferent ranks,  that  doubt  can  occur ;  or  where  a  promotion  occurs  in 
a  regiment  not  serving  in  America. 

In  1754  the  only  American  regiments  noted  were  the  four  Inde- 
pendent companies  of  Xew  York,  and  three  Independent  companies 
of  South  Carolina.  In  1755,  Braddock's  command  was  added, 
noted  in  this  list  as  Br.  In  1756  the  first  numbered  regiment  ap- 
peared on  the  returns, — the  62d,  or  Royal  American.  Beginning 
with  1758  other  regiments  were  added,  and  the  62d  became  the 
GOth — still  known  as  the  Royal  American,  and  remained  in  service 
in  America  till  1773 — a  longer  service  than  any  other  regiment. 
The  American  life  of  each  regiment,  and  the  names  of  the  respective 
colonels,  will  form  a  useful  introduction  to  the  list  of  officers.. 


First  regiment,  second  batta.ion,  1758-1764. 

1758-1763,  James  Sinclair. 

1764,  Sir  Henry  Erskine,  Bt. 

Eighth  (or  the  King's)  regiment  of  Foot,  1769-1773. 

1769-1772,  Daniel  Webb. 

1773,  Bigoe  Armstrong. 

Ninth  regiment  of  Foot.    1764-1765,  in  Florida;  1766-1769,  in  America; 
1770,  in  Ireland. 

1764-1769,  William  Whitmore. 
Tenth  regiment  of  Foot,  1768-1773. 

1768-1773,  Edward  Sandford. 
Fourteenth  regiment  of  Foot,  1768-1773. 

1768-1773,  Hon.  William  Keppel. 
Fifteenth  regiment  of  Foot,  1758-1767. 

1758-1767,  Jeffery  Amherst. 
Sixteenth  regiment  of  Foot,  1768-1773. 

1768-1773,  James  Gisborue. 
Seventeenth  regiment  of  Foot,  1758-1767. 

1758-1759,  John  Forbes. 

1760-1767,  Robert  Monckton. 

VOL.  XLVIII.  4* 


3  -      British  Officers  serving  in  America.  [Jan. 

Eighteenth  (or  Royal  Irish)  regiment  of  Foot,  1768-1773. 

1768-1773,  Sir  John  Sebright. 
Twenty-first  (or  Royal  North  British  Fuzileers),  1766-1773. 

1766-1770,  William,  Earl  of  Panmure. 

1771-1773,  Hon.  Alexander  Mackay. 
Twenty-second  regiment  of  Foot,  1758-1765.* 

1758-1762,  Edward  Whitmore. 

1763-1765,  Hon.  Thomas  Gage. 
Twenty-sixth  regiment  of  Foot,  1768-1773, 

1768-1773,  John  Scott. 
Twenty-seventh  (or  Inniskilling)  regiment  of  Foot,  1758-1767. 

1758-1761,  William,  Lord  Blakeney. 

1762-1767,  Hugh  Warburton. 
Twenty-eighth  regiment  of  Foot,  1758-1767. 

1758-1759,  Philip  Bragg. 

1760-1767,  Hon.  George  Townshend. 
Twenty -ninth  regiment  of  Foot,  1766-1773. 

1766-1769,  George,  Earl  of  Granard. 

1770-1773,  William  Evelyn. 
Thirty-first  regiment  of  Foot,  1766-1773,  with  the  exception  of  1769, 
when  it  was  in  Minorca. 

1766-1773,  James  Adolphus  Oughton. 
Thirty-fourth  regiment  of  Foot,  1764— 1769.f 

1764-1769,  Lord  Frederick  Cavendish. 
Thirty-fifth  regiment  of  Foot,  1 758-17 64$ 

1758-1764,  Charles  Otway. 
Fortieth  regiment  of  Foot,  1758-1765. 

1758,  Perigrine  Thomas  Hopson. 

1759,  John  Barrington. 

1760,  Vacant. 
1761-1765,  Robert  Armiger. 

Forty-second  regiment  of  Foot,  1758-1767. 

1758-1767,  Lord  John  Murray. 
Forty-third  regiment  of  Foot,  1758-1763.§ 

1758-1761,  James  Kennedy. 

1761-1762,  Shurington  Talbot. 

1763,  Hon.  Bennet  Noel. 

Forty-fourth  regiment  of  Foot,  1758-1765. 

1758-1765,  James  Abercrombie. 
Forty-fifth  regiment  of  Foot,  1758-1765. 

1758-1761,  Hugh  Warburton. 

1762,  Andrew  Robinson. 

1763—1765,  Hon.  John  Boscawen. 
Forty-sixth  regiment  of  Foot,  1758-1767. 

1758—1764,  Thomas  Murray. 

1765-1767,  Hon.  William  Howe. 
Forty-seventh  regiment  of  Foot.  1758-1763. 

1758-1763,  Peregrine  Lascelles. 


*  In  176 *  and  1765  this  regiment  was  in  Louisiana* 
+  In  Louisiana  in  1764  and  1765. 
1  In  Florida  in  1764. 
5  In  Jamaica  in  1764. 


1894.1  '  British  Officers  serving  in  America.  39 

Forty-eighth  regiment  of  Foot,  1758-17G3. 

1758-1763,  Daniel  Webb. 
Fifty-second  regiment  of  Foot,  1766-1773. 

1766-1773,  John  Clavering. 
Fifty-fifth  regiment  of  Foot.  1758-1763. 

*1758,  George  Augustus,  Viscount  Howe. 

1759,  John  Frideaux. 

1760-1762,  James  Adolphus  Oughton. 

1763,  William  Gansell. 

Fifty-eighth  regiment  of  Foot,  1758-1763. 

'  1758-1763,  Robert  Anstruther. 
Fifty-ninth  regiment  of  Foot,  1766-1773. 

*  1766-1773.  John  Owen. 
Sixtieth  (late  62d)  regiment  of  Foot,  1758-1773.* 

1758,  James  Abercrombie. 

1759-1773,  Jeffery  Amherst. 
Sixty-second  regiment  of  Foot,  1756-1757. 

1756-1757,  John,  Farl  of  Loudoun. 
Sixty-fourth  regiment  of  Foot,  1769-1773. 

1769-1773,  John  Fomeroy. 
Sixty-fifth  regiment  of  Foot,  1769-1773. 

1769-1770,  Hon.  Alexander  Mackay. 

1771-1773,  Edward  Urmston. 
Sixty-ninth  regiment  of  Foot,  1768-1769. 

"1768-1769,  Hon.  Charles  Colville. 
Seventy-seventh  regiment  of  Foot,  1758-1763. f 

1758-1763,  Archibald  Montgomery.  J 
Seventy-eighth  regiment  of  Foot,  1758-17G3. 

1758-1763,  Simon  Fraser.§ 
Eightieth  regiment  of  Foot,  1758-1763.f 

1758-1762,  Thomas  Gage. 

1763,  Montague  Wilmot. 

Ninety-fourth  (or  Royal  Welsh  Volunteers),  1762-1763.t 

1762-1763,  Hon.  John  Vaughan. 
'   Ninety-fifth  regiment  of  Foot,  1762-1763.t 

1762-1763,  Ralph  Burton. 
Corps  of  Rangers,  1762-1763-f 

1762-1763,  Joseph  Goreham.§ 


The  construction  of  the  table  will  speak  for  itself.  Where  no 
number  of  a  regiment  is  given,  the  date  is  that  of  the  rank  in  the 
army.  This  will  assist  in  tracing  the  service  of  the  officer  elsewhere 
than  in  America.  The  quartermasters  and  adjutants  were,  as  a 
ride,  taken  from  the  lieutenants  or  ensigns  of  the  regiment.  In 
one  or  two  of  the  regiments  the  ranks  of  first  and  second  lieutenants 
occur,  but  they  correspond  wTith  the  more  usual  ranks  of  lieutenants 
and  ensigns.  In  some  instances  the  rank  of  lieutenant  was  given, 
but  the  officer  served  as  an  ensign.     This  was  so  unusual,  hardly 

*  In  1773  this  regiment  was  in  two  battalions :  one  in  Jamaica,  and  one  in  Antiqua. 

f  Disbanded  in  1764. 

t  Lieutenant-Colonel  commandant. 

9  Major  commandant. 


40 


British  Officers  serving  in  America. 


[Jan. 


twenty  cases  coming  to  my  attention,  that  no  special  note  is  made 
01  it,  and  the  rank  ot  ensign  given. 


Name. 

Abercrombie,  James 


Abercrombie,  James 
Abercrombie,  John 
Abercrombie,  William 
Abercromby,  James 
Abercromby,  James 
Abercromby,  James 
Abercromby,  James 
Abercromby,  Kobert 

Abercromby,  William 
Achmuty,  Thoruas 

Ackland,  Dudley 
Adair,  Job  a 
Adderley,  Frauds 

Addison,  Nicholas 
Addisou,  Richard 
Addison,  Thomas 
Addisou,  Thomas 
Adlam,  John 
Adlam,  Johu 

Adlam,  John 
Adlam,  William 
Agnew,  James 
Agnew,  James 

Aikman,  Joseph 


Airey,  Joseph 
Alcock,  William 
Aldridge,  Christopher 

Allan 

Ailaz,  James 


Rank.  Kcgiment.         Date  of  Commission. 


Lt. 


Allen,  Jann 


Majr  Gen 

Colouel 

Colouel 

Lt.  Gen. 

Capt. 

Capt. 

Lieut. 

Lieut. 

Ensign 

Major 

Capt. 

Lieut. 

Capt. 

Capt. 

Lieut. 

Capt 

Capt 

Lt.  Col. 

Surgeon 

Ensign 

Qr  W 

Lieut. 

Capt. 

Ensigu 

Capt. 

Major 

Adj't. 

Capt.  Lt. 

Capt. 

Ensign 

Ensign 

Major 

Colonel 

Adj't. 

l9t  Lieut. 

Capt.  Lt. 

Capt. 

Lieut. 

Capt. 

1st  Lieut. 

Major 

Qr  Mr 

Surgeon 

Lieut. 

Capt.  Lt. 

Capt. 

Lieut. 


44 
60 

42 

1 

62 

35 

44 
78 
42 
44 
44 
44 
27 
27 
27 
8 

Br. 

52 

52 

52 

52 

52 

28 

35 

40 

40 

40 

40 

40 
58 

44 

21 

21 

21 

21 

N.  Y. 

52 

40 

40 

40 

95 

62 

60 

60 

44 


31  January,  1756. 
13  March,  1756. 
27  December,  1 757. 
31  March,  1759. 
16  February,  1756. 
7  May,  1757. 
6  February,  1756. 
26  March,  1758. 
21  July,  1758. 
25  July,  1760. 
5  May,  1762. 
19  April,  1759. 
12  December,  1761. 
16  November,  1764. 
10  March.  1753. 

21  July,  1758. 
7  March,  1762. 

23  November,  1768. 

10  March,  1760. 
6  September,  1765. 

6  September,  1767. 

22  April,  1762. 

26  December,  1770. 

24  June,  1744. 
19  May,  1760. 

7  February,  1757. 
19  March,  1758. 

7  April,  1761. 

30  September,  1761. 

28  September,  17G2. 

17  December,  1757. 

3  January,  1762. 
12  December,  1764. 
21  September,  1757. 

'  8  May,  1758. 

18  November,  1768. 
6  October,  1769.    ■ 

4  March,  1762. 

3  May,  1765. 

26  November,  1755. 
18  March,  1758. 
18  July,  1764. 

4  March,  1761. 
17  January,  1756. 
6  May,  1761. 

2  October,  1761. 
9  November,  1755. 


1894.1  ^British  Officers  serving  in  America. 


41 


Allen,  James 

Allen,  Richard 
Alleyne,  David 
Alt,  Henry 

Amherst,  Jeffery 


Amherst,  Jeffery 
Amiel,  John 
Ancram,  "William 

Anderson,  Ephraim 
Anderson,  Robert 
Anderson,  William 
Angus,  William 
Aunersley,  William 
Anstruther,  James 

Anstruther,  Robert 

Anstruther,  William 
Appreece,  John 

Arbuthnot,  Alexander 


Arbuthnot,  Robert 
Arbuthnot, 


Archbold,  George 
Archbold,  John 
Archbold,  Thomas 
Armiger,  Robert 
Armstrong,  Eigoe 

Armstrong,  Thomas 

Armstrong, 


Ensign 

62 

Adj't. 

60 

Lieut. 

60 

Lieut. 

35 

Capt. 

35 

Capt.  Lt. 

43 

Capt. 

1 

Lieut. 

22 

Capt. 

60 

44 

Col. 

15 

60 

Maj.  Gen. 

Lt.  Gen. 

Ensign 

60 

Ensign 

60 

Lieut. 

34 

Ensign 

44 

Ensign 

55 

2d  Lieut. 

21 

Ensign 

42 

Surgeon 

34 

Ensign 

58 

Lieut. 

58 

Maj.  Gen. 

Col. 

58 

Capt. 

26 

Ensign 

8 

Ensign 

15 

Lieut. 

15 

Capt. 

42 

Ensign 

46 

Ensign 

62 

Lieut. 

60 

2d  Lieut. 

40 

Lieut. 

40 

Lieut. 

47 

Capt. 

47 

Maj.  Gen. 

Colonel 

40 

Maj.  Gen. 

Col.  Com' 

60 

Lt.  Gen. 

Colonel 

8 

Ensign 

35 

Lieut. 

64 

Capt. 

64 

Ensign 

48 

25  December,  1755. 

18  August,  1756. 

1  December,  1756. 
16  February,  1756. 

5  October,  1760. 
21  March,  1758. 
25  December,  1758. 

21  September,  1754. 
8  March,  1757. 

12  September,  1760. 

19  September,  1761. 

22  May,  1756. 

30  September,  1758. 

25  June,  1759. 

19  January,  1761. 
3  June,  1771. 

26  June,  1760. 

23  June,  1762. 

30  May,  1764. 

8  August,  1758. 
25  March,  1761. 

6  October,  1769. 
25  June,  1759. 

20  January,  1762. 

27  August,  1756. 
12  December,  1759. 
25  June,  1759. 

28  December,  1755. 

I  January,  1766. 
25  December,  1761. 

15  April,  1766. 
3  October,  1757. 

II  January,  1758. 
8  July,  1760. 

19  July,  1758. 

31  October,  1762. 
1  January,  1756. 

8  December,  1756. 

3  July,  1755. 

9  October,  1761. 

22  June,  1755. 

23  May,  1759. 
25  June,  1759. 

10  December,  1760. 
10  July,  1762. 

16  December,  1767. 
25  May,  1772. 

20  October,  1772. 
9  April,  1756. 

1  April,  1762. 

4  December,  1767. 

2  February,  1770. 


42 


British  Officers  serving  in  America. 


[Jan. 


Arnold,  John 

Chaplain 

9 

Arnot,  Hugh 

Capt. 

80 
46 

Arthur,  Thomas 

Ensign 

43 

Lieut. 

43 

Ashe,  Dudley 

Lieut. 

1 

Ashe,  John 

Lieut. 

2S 

Astle,  Daniel 

Ensigu 

42 
15 

Atkinson.  William 

Ensign 

Aubrey,  Thomas 

Ensign 

9 

Aylrner,  Richard 

Ensign 

17 

Lieut. 

17 

Aylward,  Peter 

Capt. 

9 

Babbidge,  James 

QrM' 

15 

Ensign 

15 

Babbington,  Charles 

Ensign 

55 

Lieut. 

55 

Bacon,  William 

Ensign 

28 

Capt.  Lieut. 

40 

Baggs,  John 

Ensign 

1 

Baggs,  Philip 

Capt. 

G9 

Baggs,  Stephen 

Chaplain 

C9 

Baillie,  Alexander 

Ensign 

60 

i 

Lieut. 

60 
21 

Baillie,  Alexander 

Lieut. 

1 

Capt. 

1 

Baillie,  Charles 

Capt. 

78 

Baillie,  David 

Lieut. 

78 

Baillie,  Henry 

Capt. 

94 

Baillie,  Richard 

Capt. 

44 

Baillie,  Richard 

Capt.  Lieut. 

35 

Capt. 

35 

Baillie,  William 

Lieut. 

62 

QrMr 

60 

Capt. 

60 

Baillie,  William 

Lieut. 

42 

Bain,  James 

Ensign 

77 

Baines.  William 

Surgeon 

95 

Baker,  Thomas 

Ensign 

28 

Baldwin,  Thomas 

Ensign 

47 

Balfour,  David 

Ensign 

77 

Ensign 

1 

Balfour,  Henry 

Lieut. 

1 

Adj' 

1 

Captain 

80 

Captain 

1 

Balfour,  Lewis 

Ensign 

1 

Ball,  Edward 

Lieut. 

59 

Ball,  George 

Lieut. 

59 

5  April,  1759. 

28  December,  1757. 
16  August,  1760. 
22  November.  1756. 
14  August,  1762. 
22  November,  1756. 

27  April,  1756. 
22  October,  1762. 

13  December,  1765. 

14  September,  1760. 

26  October,  1762. 

6  August,  1759. 

16  September,  1762. 
24  July,  1762. 

21  December,  1758. 

10  September,  1762. 
16  September,  1758. 
6  October,  1761. 

22  November,  1756. 

11  June,  1762. 

2  February,  1757. 

28  October,  1762. 

28  February,  1766. 

9  December,  1756. 

27  July,  1758. 

29  November,  1771. 
2  February,  1757. 

30  November,  1761. 

10  January,  1757. 

26  July,  1757. 

12  January,  1760. 

6  June,  1757. 

24  June,  1758. 
14  April,  1759. 
19  January,  1756. 
14  April,  1759. 

4  October,  1760. 

31  January,  1756. 

7  January.  1758. 

7  April,  1762. 

27  March.  1765. 
19  May,  1761. 

2  June,  1762. 

14  January,  1763. 

15  March,  1755. 

25  February,  1757. 

13  September,  1760. 

8  October,  1761. 

31  December,  1762. 

28  January,  1763. 

14  December,  1759. 


1894.] 


British  Officers  serving  in  America. 


43 


Ball,  Robert* 

Balueavis,  Patrick 


Bam  ford,  "William 

Banks,  John 
Barber,  John 
Barbnt,  Theodore 
Barbutt,  Hor.  Pearse 

Barbutt,  James 
Barclay,  David 
Bard,  William 
Barker,  Samuel 
Barker,  William 

Barker, . 

Barnsley,  Thomas 


Barnstedt, 

Barre,  Isaac 

Barrington,  John 
Barron,  Edward 

Barron,  George 
Barrow,  Thomas 
Barry,  Henry 


Barry,  Samuel 

Bartman,  George 
Bass,  Robert 
Basset,  Charles 
Basset,  Henry 
Bassett,  James 
Bassett,  Richard 

Basset,  Thomas 
Bastide,  George 
Batt,  Thomas 

Battersby,  James 
Batut,  John 

Baud  in,  Harrington 


Chaplain  64 

Ensign  42 

Lieut.  42 
Capt.     Lieut.  42 

Lieut.  35 
Capt.     Lieut.  35 

Ensign  46 

Lieut.  95 
Capt.     Lieut.  48 

Ensign  15 

Lieut.  15 

Capt.  15 

Lieut.  42 

Ensign  80 

Ensign  15 

Lieut.  1 6 

Ensign  34 

Ensign  62 

Adjutant  60 

Lieut.  60 

Capt.  60 

Lieut.  62 

Capt.  2S 
Lieut.  Col. 

Colonel  40 

Adj't.  60 

Ensign  60 

Lieut.  60 

Ensign  16 

Ensign  52 
2d  Lieut. 

Lieut.  52 

Ensign  16 

Lieut.  16 

Capt.  44 
Apoth.  Mate  Br, 

Lieut.  47 

Major  10 

Lieut.  29 
Ensign 


Lieut. 
2d  Lieut. 
Lieut. 
Capt. 

Ensign 
Lieut. 


62 
40 
18 
18 
29 
14 


Lieut. 

Lieut.  5S 

Capt.  Lieut.  58 

Capt.  58 

*  Also  spelled  Bell. 


5  August,  1758. 
28  January,  1756. 

1  April,  1758. 
23  August,  1763. 

16  February,  1756. 
25  December,  1762. 

25  July,  1758. 

7  March,  1760. 

21  November,  1757. 

9  June,  1758. 

26  September,  1760. 
11  October, 

25  July,  1757. 

8  September,  1761. 

22  May,  1759. 

17  June,  1761. 

7  September,  1762. 

26  December,  1755. 

18  August,  1756. 

2  December,  1756. 
30  May,  1759. 

10  January,  1756. 

27  February,  1760. 
29  January,  1761. 
9  June,  1759. 

1  May,  1760. 

16  April,  1762. 

13  April,  1772. 

11  March,  1768. 

22  February,  1763. 

23  September,  1772. 
21  March,  1765. 

26  December,  1770. 

25  December,  1756. 

1755. 

24  November,  1755. 
11  September,  1765. 
7  December,  1764. 

28  June,  1771. 

7  December,  1764. 

14  February,  1756. 
18  March,   1758. 

16  December,  1767. 

3  June,  1771. 

2  February,  1770. 

26  December,  1770. 

17  March,  1761. 

3  July,  1755. 

27  December,  1755. 

18  October,  1760. 


44 


British  0$ 


icers  serving  in  A; 


Baugh,  Thomas 


Baugh,  William 
Bay,  John 
Bayard,  Robert 


Baylie,  John 
Bayne;  Duncan 
Bayntun,  Harry 
Beall,  Levin 
Bean,  James 
Beard,  Arthur 
Beatson,  James 
Beaumont,  Hammond 
Beaumont,  John 
Beaver,  Samuel 
Becher,  John  Gainsford 

Beckers,  Henry 
Beckwith,  John 


Belcher,  Fred.  John 
Bell,  Jdhn 

Bell,  Thomas 
Bell,  Thomas 
Bellew,  Patrick 
Bellew,  William 
Bennet,  Thomas 

Bentham,  Edward  William 
Bentinck,  Rodoiphus 

Benzell,  Adolphus 

Berkenhout,  John 

Bertrand,  John 

Berwick,  Nicholas 
Bethuen,  James 


Bevan,  John 
Beven,  Morgan 


[j. 


Bewes,  George 


Lieut. 

Lieut. 

Captain 

Lieut. 

Ensign 

Lieut. 

Lieut. 

Capt. 

Major 

Ensign 

Lieut. 

Ensign 

Ensign 

1st  Lieut. 

Lieut. 

Ensign 

Surgeon 

Ensign 

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Ensign 

Ensign 

Lieut. 

Capt. 

Capt. 

Major 

Lieut. 

Ensign 

Lieut. 

Surgeon 

Ensign 

Lieut. 

Capt. 

Ensign 

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Ensign 

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Capt. 

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Lieut. 

Capt. 

Capt. 

Ensign 

Lieut. 

QrMr 

1st  Lieut. 

lrt  Lieut. 

Capt.     Lieut, 

Capt. 

Lieut. 

2d  Lieut. 

1"  Lieut. 

Ensign 

Lieut. 


55 
55 
34 

GO 
80 
GO 
60 
60 
65 
77 
46 
28 


4  October,  1745. 
26  December,  1755. 
24  July,  1758. 
8  February,  176?. 


26  December,  1757. 
16  July,  1758. 
18  April,  1759. 

4  October,  1765. 

16  August,  1708. 
10  January,  1757. 

5  August,  1759. 

17  October,  1759. 
Bangers  25  September,  1761. 

28  August.  1756. 
15  July,  1767. 

18  March,  1761. 
14  November,  1770. 
2  February,  1757. 
23  December,  1767. 

10  December,  1771. 
2  January,  175S. 

11  June,  1748. 
2  March,  1750-1. 
18  July,  1758. 
27  April,  1756. 
13  January,  1756. 

.  12  May,  1757. 
7  April,  1762. 
16  June,  1762. 

15  August,  1762. 

16  February,  1756. 

16  November,  1764. 
1  August,  1770. 

17  April,  1769. 

18  February,  1756. 
14  May,  1761. 
24  November,  1755. 
2  Jauuary,  1757. 
26  August,  1756. 
7  August,  1760. 

7  December,  1764. 
13  September,  1769. 

8  December,  1762. 
13  February,  17C2. 
6  December,  1765. 
21  February.  1772. 
25  May,  1772. 

28  June,  1755. 
10  January,  1760. 

29  September,  1761. 
10  April,  1769. 
27  February,  1772. 


64 
26 
29 
46 

16 

80 

44 

44 

62 
60 
27 
55 
1 
35 


16 
62 

1 


British  Officers 


1894.] 

Billings,  John 

Bird,  Henry 

Bird,  Thomas  Taylor 
Bird,  William 

Birniere,  Henry 

Birniere,  John  de 


Bishop,  Johu 
Bishop,  Robert 
Blacker,  Henry 
Blacker,  William  Latham 
Blackett,  William 
Blachmore,  Robert 
Blackwood,  William 

Blair,  Alexander  _ 
Blair.  Simon 
Blake,  W.  Todd 
Blakeley,  John 
Blakeney,  John 


Blakeney,  Robert 
Blakeney,  Theophilus 

Blakeney,  William,  Lord 

Blane,  Archibald 
Blennerhassett,  John 
Blizard,  Conway 
Blood,  Thomas 
Bogges,  John 
Bolton,  Francis 
Bolton,  Mason 


Bomford,  Thomas 

Bonniville,  Hiacinthe  de 
Borough,  William  Blakeney 

Borry,  David 
Bosomworth,  Abraham 
Boseawen,  Hon.  John 


A  double  commission  apparently. 
VOL.     XLVIII.  5 


l/icers  serving  m  . 

Lieut. 

Lieut. 

60 

Lieut. 

Lieut. 

8 

Ensign 

16 

Ensign 

17 

Ensign* 

17 

Ensign 

Ensign 

10 

Ensign 

55 

Lieut. 

44 

Lieut. 

18 

Lieut 

45 

Surgeon 

64 

Ensign 

65 

Ensign 

65 

Capt. 

14 

Lieut. 

10 

Ensign 

18 

Lieut. 

18 

Lieut. 

G9 

Lieut. 

42 

Ensign 

27 

Surgeon 

47 

Lieut. 

27 

QrMr 

27 

Capt.    Lieut, 

.  27 

Capt. 

Capt. 

27 

Lieut. 

27 

Lieut. 

35 

Capt. 

35 

Col. 

27 

L;.  Gen. 

Ensign 

60 

Ensign 

10 

Capt.    Lieut. 

,  15 

Ensign 

64 

Ensign 

So.  Ca. 

Lieut. 

15 

QrMr 

9 

Capt.    Lieut. 

,     9 

Capt. 

9 

Ensign 

64 

Lieut. 

64 

Capt. 

60 

Lieut. 

Lieut. 

26 

Ensign 

60 

Capt. 

62 

Maj.  Gen. 

Colonel 

45 

America.  45 

21  December,  1754. 

8  March,  1757. 

3  October,  1764. 

22  February,  1768. 
22  July,  1769. 
14  April,  1763.- 

25  December,  1765. 
22  August,  1770. 

14  September,  1779. 

22  November,  1755. 

9  August,  1760. 

4  February,  1769. 

15  March,"  17  GO. 
18  April,  1766. 

15  Mav,  1771. 

16  May,  1766. 

29  May,  1761. 
11  September,  1765. 
4  March,  1767. 

26  December,  1770. 

24  June,  1761. 
20  July,  1757. 

17  August,  1763. 
1  April,  1760. 

10  December,  1755. 
13  Februarv,  1757. 
7  March,  1762. 

25  August,  1762. 
25  December,  1765. 

27  April,  1756. 
13  April,  1756. 

30  August,  1761. 
27  June,  1737. 

11  September,  1747. 

4  December,  1756. 
6  February,  1772. 

30  October,  1762. 

12  January,  1770. 

5  May,  1756. 

I  October,  1757. 

II  February,  1756. 

31  July,  1762. 

23  March,  1764. 
1  January,  1766. 
12  July,  1770. 
31  December,  1755. 
25  December,  1762. 

I  April,  1767. 
15  September,  1760. 
20  January,  1755. 
4  March,  1761. 

II  November,  1761. 


46 


.Descendants  of  John  Briant,  Sen. 


[Jo 


Botteler,  "William 

Lieut. 

55 

29  December,  1755. 

Capt.    Lieut. 

55 

28  November,  1759. 

Botet,  Anthony 

Lieut. 

10 

25  May,  1765. 

Boucher,  James 

Ensign 

31 

22  March,  1762. 

Lieut. 

31 

29  July,   1765. 

Bourke,  Bingham 

Ensign 

28 

27  April,  1756. 

Lieut. 

28 

24  April,  1762. 

Bourne,  John 

Chaplain 

43 

3  January,  1740-1. 

Bourne,  Obadiah 

Capt. 

8 

27  August,  1756. 

Bouquet,  Henry 

Lieut.  Col. 

62 

3  January,  1756. 

Colouel 

19  February.  1762. 

Bowden,  John 

Ensign 

46 

16  August,  1762. 

[To  be  continued.] 

/v-  M 

1 

DESCENDANTS    OF  JOHN  BRIANT, 

ATE,   MASS. 


SEN.,  OF    SCITU- 


ByDr.  Fekcy  Bkyant,  of  Buffalo,  N.Y. 

The  name  Bryant  can  be  traced  back  to  Sir  Guy  De  Briant,  who  lived 
in  the  time  of  Edward  III.,  and  whose  descendants  had  their  seat  in  the 
Castle  of  Hereford  in  the  marches  of  Wales.  Arms:  the  Held  is  Or,  three 
piles  meeting  near  in  the  base  of  the  Escutcheon,  Azure.  No  connection 
has  been  established  between  this  family  and  the  first  of  the  name  who 
came  to  America  with  the  early  settlers  of  Plymouth  Colony,  but  this  will 
probably  be  accomplished  when  the  effort  is  made. 

About  the  year  1640,  there  were  in  the  Plymouth  Colony,  four  families 
of  the  name  of  Bryant,  namely:  John  Briant  of  Taunton,  John  Briant, 
Sen.  of  Scituate,  Stephen  Briant  of  Plymouth,  and  Lieut.  John  Briant  of 
Plympton.  It  does  not  appear  from  any  records  examined  by  the  wri  er, 
that  these  families  were  related  (except  as  shown  by  a  deed  first  discovered 
by  Dr.  Lapham,  that  Lieut.  John  of  Plympton  was  a  son-in-law  of  Stephen). 
Tradition,  however,  gives  it  that  John,  Sen.  of  Scituate  and  Stephen  of 
Plymouth  were  probably  brothers. 

Genealogies  of  two  of  these  families  have  appeared  in  the  Register; 
that  of  Stephen  Briant  of  Plymouth,  Vol.  24,  page  315,  by  Mr.  John  A. 
Boutelle,  and  Lieut.  Johu  Briant  of  Plympton,  Vol.  35,  page  37,  by  Dr. 
"William  B.  Lapham. 

In  this  paper*  the  writer  will  confine  himself  to  the  family  of  John 
Briant,  Sen.  of  Scituate. 

He  was  a  prominent  person  in  the  early  his-      ,.  - 

tory  of  Plymouth  Colony,  and  throughout  his    iffi>4C^.  /Jj/lf~-iri^i.<£*<r 
life  was  active   in  public  affairs ;  was  a  land 
owner,  and  was  actively  engaged  in  the  survey 
of  public  lands.     He  was  a  member  of  the  General  Court  at  Plymouth  in 

*  Tbc  writer  is  indebted  to  Mr.  William  H.  H.  Bryant  of  Bryantville.  Mas?.,  for  many 
valuable  suggestions,  whica  have  aided  much  in  the  collection  of  material  for  "his  paper. 
Without  his  assistance,  so  generously  orltred  at  all  times,  much  that  is  here  given  would 
be  wanting. 


1894.]  -     Descendants  of  John  B  riant.  Sen.  47 

1657,  and  again  in  1677-78.  The  date  of  his  arrival  in  America  is  not 
known,  though  there  is  a  tradition  that  he  came  from  Kent,  Eng.  in  the 
Ann.  lie  lived  in  Barnstable  previous  to  moving  to  Scituate.  The  first 
appearance  of  his  name  in  the  records  of  the  Colony  occurs  among  the  list 
of  freemen  in  1639,  and  in  1643  he  is  mentioned  among  the  list  of  105 
men  of  Scituate  aide  to  bear  arms. 

He  married  three  times:  first.  Mary,  daughter  of  George  and  Mary 
(Jenkins)  Lewis  of  Barnstable,  Nov.  4,  1643,  by  whom  he  had  seven  chil- 
dren. She  died  July  2,  1655.  He  married  the  second  time,  Elizabeth, 
daughter  of  Rev.  William  Witherill  of  Scituate.  He  married  the  third 
time,  Mary,  daughter  of  Thomas  Highland  of  Scituate.  His  will  is  dated 
Nov.  4,  1684.     He  died  Nov.  20,  1684. 

His  children,  born  in  Scituate,  were: 

2.  i.        John,2  b.  Aug.  17,  1644;  in.  Mary . 

ii.       Hannah,  b.  July  25,  1G4G;  m.  John  Stodder  of  Bingham,  1665. 

iii.     Joseph,  b. ;  d.  June  16,  1669. 

iv.    '  Sarah,  b.  Sept.  29,  164S. 

v.       Maky,  b.  Feb.  24,  1650;  d.  April  8,  1652. 

vi.      Martha,  b.  Feb.  26,  1652. 

\\i.     Samuel,  b.  Feb,  6,  1654;  d.  1690,  in  Phipps'  expedition  to  Canada, 

sergeant;  inventory  of  estate,  £47. 
viii.  Elizabeth,  b.  Aug.  — ,  1665;  d.  Dec.  17,  17S3. 

3.  ix.      Daniel,  b. ;  m.  Dorothy . 

x.       Mary,  b. . 

xi.      Benjamin,  b.  Dec. — ,  1669;  d.  in  1701,  unm.;  will  proved  Jan.  5, 
1702;  inventory  of  estate,  £164. 

4.  xii.^  Joseph,  b.  ,  1671;  m. . 

xiii."  Jabez,  b.  Feb.  18,  1672;  d.  1697,  unm.     Letter  of  administration 

June  29,  1697. 
xiv.    Ruth.  b.  Aug.  16,  1673;   m.  William  Wanton,  afterwards  governor 

of  Rhode  Island. 

5.  xv.     Thomas,  b.  July  15,  1675;  m.  Mary,  dau.  of  Gershom  Ewell. 
xvi.    Deborah,  b.  Jan.  22,  1677. 

xvii.  Agatha,  b  March  12,  1678. 
xviii.  Ann,  b.  Nov.  20,  1679. 
xix.    Elisha,  b. . 

2.  Lieut.  John2  Bryant  (John,1  Sen.),  married  Mary .     He  was 

born  in  Scituate,  Aug.  17,  1644,  died  there  Jan.  26,  1708;  will 
proved  Feb.  12,  1708;  inventory  of  estate  £395.  His  children, 
born  in  Scituate,  were: 

6.  i.        John,3  Jun.,  b.  March  27,  1678;  m.  Deborah  Barstow,  Jan.  1,  1707. 

7.  ii.       Jonathan,  b.  Jan.  1,  1679;  m.  Elizabeth . 

iii.  Mary,  b.  Sept.  3,  1682;  m.  Jabez  Rose,  May  6,  1707. 

8.  iv.  David,  b.  Aug.  17,  1684;  m.  Hannah  Church. 
v.  Joshua,  b.  Nov.  14,  1687;  d.  June  9,  1709. 

9.  vi.  Samuel,  b.  Jan.  15,  16S9;  m.  Abigail  Turner, 
vii.  Martha,  b.  Aug.  22,  1691. 

3.  Daniel*  Bryant  (John,1   Sen.),   married  Dorothy  ,  planter, 

date  of  birth  not  recorded;  but  in  will  of  his  father,  he  is  mentioned 
in  order  after  his  brother  Samuel.  His  children,  born  in  Scituate, 
were: 

i-  Mercy,3  b.  Nov.  21,  1688. 

ii.  Elizabeth,  b.  Feb.  4,  1692. 

iii.  Dorothy,  b.  March  5,  1693. 

iv.  Racuael,  b.  Julv  3,  1695 ;  d.  Nov.  20,  1695. 

v.  Rachael,  b.  Jan!  10,  1697. 

vi.  Elisha,  b.  June  30,  1701. 


10. 

i. 

ii. 

11. 

115 . 

iv. 

12. 

v. 

vi. 

13. 

vii. 

viii. 

48  Descendants  of  John  Briant,  Sen.  [Jan. 

4.  Joseph*  Bryant  (John}  Sen.),  born  at  Seituate  in  1671.     In  will  re- 

ceives with  bis  brotber  Thomas,  bis  father's  house  and  farm;  also 
land  at  White  Oak  Plain.     His  children,  born  in  Seituate.  were: 

i.        Erin,3  b.  Feb.  18,  1604;  m.  Benjamin  Perry,  Feb.  20,  1712. 

ii.       Joseph,  b.  Jan.  3,  1696. 

iii.      Judith,  b.  Jan.  24,  1698;  m.  John  Dwelley,  Dec.  20,  1721. 

5.  Thomas2  BRYANT  (John.1  Sen.),  born  in  Seituate.  July  15,  1675;  mar- 

ried Aug.  2$,  1707,  by  Joseph  Otis.  Justice  of  Peace,  Mary,  daughter 
of  Gersliom  Ewell  of  Seituate,  and  grand-daughter  of  Henry  Ewell, 
a  soldier  in  the  Pequod  War.  He  died  in  Seituate  in  1748.  will 
proved  Dec.  23,  1748.  Esquire.  Estate  estimated  from  will  over 
£10,000.  A  distinguished  man  of  his  time,  Selectman,  Justice  of 
Peace,  and  Representative  to  the  Legislature  in  172o-30-33-34. 
Their  children,  born  in  Seituate,  were : 

Benjamin,3  b.  Oct.  13,  1708:  m.  Abigail  Randall. 

Mary,  b.  Nov.  6,  1711 ;  in.  Thomas  Turner  of  Seituate,  Feb.  14,  1733. 

Seth,  b.  Feb.  12,  1714;  m.  Elizabeth  Baker. 

Thomas,  bapt.  April  29,  1716;  in.  Sarah  .     Had  dau.  Sarah, 

and  probably  others. 
Peleg,  b.  July  27,  1718;  m.  Mary  Jenkins. 
Hannah,  b.  Aug.  20.  1720.     Not  mentioned  in  will. 
Lemuel,  b.  Feb.  25,  1721;  m.  Abigail  Barstow. 
Nathaniel,  b.  Nov.  23,  1724;  d.  in  infancy. 

6.  John3  Bryant  (John2  Lieut,  John1  Sen.),  born  in  Seituate,  March 

27,  1678;  married  by  Rev.  Nathaniel  Ells,  Jan.  1,  1707,  Deborah 
Barstow  of  Seituate.  He  died  March  7,  1716.  His  widow  married 
Nathaniel  Winslow  of  Marshfield,  Eeb.  19,  1718.  His  children, 
born  in  Seituate,  were: 

i.        John,4  b.  Oct.  13,  1707;  d.  April  19,  1708. 

ii.  Deborah,  b.  June  17,  1709;  m.  Snow  Winslow  of  Marshfield,  Nov. 
6,  172S. 

iii.      Agatha,  b.  July  16,  1712;  m.  Oliver  Winslow  of  Marshfield. 

iv.  Susannah,  b.  May  11,  1714;  m.  Nathaniel  Winslow  of  Marshfield, 
Feb.  3,  1731. 

v.  "  John,  b.  April  23,  1716;  d.  in  Seituate,  Oct.  20,  1793.  In  1732  Isaac 
Winslow  was  appointed  his  guardian.  He  sold  his  farm  in  Marsh- 
field to  Oliver  Winslow  in  1737. 

7.  Jonathan3  Bryant    (John2  Lieut.,    John1  Sen.),  born  in   Seituate, 

Jan.  1,  1679;  married  Elizabeth  .     She  died  April  17,  1711. 

Their  children,  born  in  Seituate,  were: 

i.        Margaret,4  b.  April  15,  1707. 
ii.       Ruth,  b.  March  15,  1709. 

8.  David8  Bryant  (John2  Lieut.,  John1  Sen.),  born  in  Seituate,  Aug. 

17,  1684;  married  by  the  Rev.  Nathaniel  Ells,  July  31,  1706,  Han- 
nah Church  (widow).  He  died  at  Seituate,  June  21,  1731.  In- 
ventory of  estate  £2,151,  Gentleman.  Hisgvvife  died  in  1736.  Their 
children,  born  in  Seituate,  were: 


i.         David,4  b.  Feb.  14,  1707;  m.  Hannah . 

ii.       Elizabeth,  b.  Feb.  16,  1709. 

iii.      Mary,  b.  May  4,  1711;  in.  John  Curtis  of  Hanover,  Nov.  6,  1733. 

She  d.  June  2,  1797. 
iv.      Jacob,  b.  Jan.  — ,  1714. 


1894.]  -Descendants  of  John  Br  ianf,  Sen.  49 

v.       Barsheba,  b.  Sept.  18.  1716;  m.  Samuel  Palmer,  Jun.  of  Scituate, 

Sept.  20,  1733. 
vi.     Deborah,  b. . 

9.  Samuel8  Bryant  (John*  Lieut.,  Joint1  Sen.),  born  in  Scituate,  Jan. 
15,  1G89;  died  there  in  1753.  Wheelwright;  married  Abigail 
Turner  of  Scituate,  Feb.  14,  1711,  by  Rev.  Nathaniel  Ells.  Their 
children,  born  in  Scituate,  were: 

i.        Joshua,4  b.  Jan,  C,  1713. 

15.  ii.       .Samuel.  Jun.,  bapt.  July  29,  1716;  m.  Mary  Bucks, 
iii.      John,  b.  Dec.  21,  1718. 

It.      Abigail,  b.  July  21,  1723. 

10.  Benjamin3  Bryant  (Thomas.2  John1  Sen.),  born  in  Scituate  Oct.  13, 

1708,  yeoman;  married  Abigail  Randall  of  Scituate,  Sept.  11,  1729, 
by  Rev.  Nathaniel  Ells.  He  moved  to  Windsor,  Conu.  about  the 
year  1750.     His  children,  born  in  Scituate,  were: 

i.  Mary,*  b.  June  29,  1730. 

ii.  Lucy,  b.  March  25,  1732. 

16.  iii.  Benjamin,  b.  Oct.  17,  1734;  m.  Ruxby  Perry, 
iv.  George,  b.  June  15,  1736. 

v.  Lillie,  b..  April  22,  1738. 

vi.  Betty,  b.  Feb.  15,  1739. 

vii.  Consider,  b.  June  9,  1742. 

viii.  Ruth,  bapt.  Aug.  5,  1744. 

ix.  Prince,  b.  July  27,  1746. 

x.  Abigail,  b.  June  7,  1748. 

11.  Seth3  Bryant    (Thomas'  John1  Sen.),  born  in    Scituate,  Feb.  12, 

1714;  married  by  Rev.  Shearsjashub  Bourn,  Elizabeth,  daughter 
of  Ebenezer  and  Deborah  (Randall)  Barker  of  Scituate,  Aug.  17, 
1736.  She  was  great-granddaughter  of  Robert  Barker  of  Pem- 
broke, and  great-great-granddaughter  of  William  Randall  of  Scituate. 
He  moved  to  Marshfield  about  the  same  year.  He  died  there  in 
1772.  Will  proved  Aug.  7,  1772;  Gentleman.  Inventory  of  estate 
£1,059.  His  wife  died  Feb.  7,  1788.  His  children,  born  in  Marsh- 
field,  were: 

i.        Ruth,4  b.  Oct.  25,  1736 ;  m.  Abner  Dingley  of  Duxbury,  Jan.  4,  1759. 

17.  ii.       Nathaniel,  b.  Oct.  10,  1738;   m.  Hannah  Barker,   dau.  of  Capt. 

Samuel  Barker. 

18.  iii.      Seth,  b.  Aug.  4,  1741 ;  m.  Sarah . 

19.  iv.      Joseph,  b.  Feb.  13,  1743;  m.  Sarah  Little. 

v.       Charles,  b.  July  20,  1751 ;  m.  Jerusha  of  New  Castle,  Me. 

vi.      Vashti,  b.  June  22,  1755;  m.  Abijah  Brown  of  Scituate,  June  29, 
1790. 

12.  Peleg3  Bryant  (Thomas,2  John1  Sen.),  born  in  Scituate,  July  27, 

1718;  he  died  there  in  1772;  married  Mary  Jenkins  of  Scituate  in 
April,  1740.     Will  dated  Sept.  27,  1771.     Gentleman.    Their  chil- 
dren, born  in  Scituate,  were: 
5-        Mary  Ewell,4  bapt.  July  15,  1744. 

20.  II.       Pkleg,  bapt.  Oct.  19,  1746 ;  m.  Lydia  Collamar. 

iii.  Ann,  bapt.  April  3,  1748 ;  m.  Joshua  Lincoln  of  Scituate,  Jan.  6,  1767. 

iv.  Rhoda,  bapt.  Dec.  3,  1749. 

v.  James,  bapt.  June  30,  1751. 

vi.  Edward,  bapt.  June  10,  1753. 

vii.  Martha,  bapt.  Oct.  2,  1757;  m.  Calvin  Curtis  of  Hanover,  Nov.  7, 

VOL.  XL  vii  i.  5* 


50  -  Descendants  of 'John  Briant,  Sen.  [Jan. 

13.  Rev.  Lemuel3  Bryant    (Thomas?  John1   Sen.),    baptized    Feb.  25, 

1721.  A  distinguished  minister  of  Braintree,  Mass.  Was  graduated 
from  Harvard  in  1739.  Ordained  Dec.  4,  1745.  Published  a  ser- 
mon on  "Moral  Virtue"  in  1747-  John  Adams  speaks  of  a  con- 
troversy between  Mr.  Bryant  and  Miles,  Porter  and  Bass,  which 
"  broke  out  like  the  eruption  of  a  volcano  and  blazed  with  a  por- 
tentous aspect  for  many  years."  He  married  Abigail  Barstow,  Aug. 
23,  1749.  Died  at  Hiugkaui,  Mass.,  Oct.  1,  1754.  Was  interred  at 
Scituate. 

14.  David4  Bryant  {David?  John*  Lieut.,  John1  Sen),  born  in   Scituate, 

Feb.  14.  1707;  married  Hannah .     Their  children,  born  in 

Scituate,  were : 

i.  David,5  bapt.  Sept.  6,  1730;  m.  Lydia . 

ii.  Jonathan,  bapt.  June  6,  1731. 

iii.  Hannah,  bapt.  Nov.  4,  1733. 

iv.  Ruth,  bapt.  March  25,  1735. 

v.  Ann,  bapt.  March  23,  1739. 

15.  Samuel4  Bryant   (Samuel?  John2  Lieut.,  John1  Sen.),  born  iu  Scit- 

uate in  171G;  married  Mary  Bucks  of  Scituate  in  October,  1745. 
Housewright.     Their  children,  born  in  Scituate,  were: 

i.  Abigal,*  b.  Dec.  31,  1747. 

ii.  Sa_muel,  b.  Dec.  26,  1743. 

iii.  Ira,  b.  Aug.  28,  1750. 

iv.  Elijah,  b.  Nov.  8,  1751. 

t.  Molly,  b.  July  23,  1753. 

21.  vi.  Zina,  b.  Jau.  1,  1755;  m.  Eunice  Wade, 
vii.  Snow,  b.  Oct.  6,  1753. 

16.  Benjamin4  Bryant  (Benjamin?  Thomas?  John1  Sen.),  born  in  Scit- 

uate, Oct.  17,  1734;  married  by  Rev.  David  Barnes,  July  16,  1757, 
Ruxby,  daughter  of  Benjamin  Perry  of  Scituate.  He  moved  to 
Chesterfield,  Mass.,  about  the  year  1780.     Their  children  were: 

22.  i.        Eli,s  b. . 

ii.       Asabel,  b. . 

And  probably  others. 

17.  Nathaniel4  Bryant  (Seth?   Thomas?  John1  Sen.),  born  in  Marsh- 

field,  Oct.  10,  1738;  married  in  February,  1763,  Hannah,  daughter 
of  Capt.  Samuel  and  Patience  ( Howland)  Barker  of  Scituate.  She 
was  fifth  in  descent  from  John  Howland  who  came  over  in  the  May- 
flower, and  sixth  in  descent  from  John  Barker  of  Scituate.  He 
moved  to  Newcastle,  Me.  in  1766,  and  the  same  year  purchased  of 
Richard  Bowers  one  hundred  acres  of  land  on  the  westerlv  side  of 
Damariscotta  Pond,  half  a  mile  below  the  Great  Salt- Water  Falls. 
Here  he  built  a  wharf,  the  remains  of  which  are  yet  to  be  seen.  He 
was  one  of  the  first  to  establish  ship-building  on  the  Damariscotta 
River.  His  son,  Nathaniel,  afterwards  extensively  developed  ship- 
building in  Newcastle.  Nathaniel,  Sen.,  died  in  Newcastle,  July  9, 
1772.  Inventory  of  his  estate  £2,149.  His  widow,  Hannah,  mar- 
ried Prince  Barker.     Nathaniel's  children  were: 

23.    i.         Nathaniel,4  b.  May  2,  1705;  m.  Betsy  Wall,  Oct.  1,  1605. 

ii.       Hannah  Barker,  b.  March  25,  17U8;  m.  Enos  Clapp,  Sept.  21,  1788. 
iii.      Patience,  b.  Sept.  30,  1771 ;  in.  William  Watr-rs,  May  3,  1792. 

iv.      Asenath,  b. ;  m.  Eliphalet  Connor  of  Thomaston,  Me.,  July 

25,  1790. 


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18.  Seth*  Bryant    (Scth,3   Thomas,7  John1    Sen.),    born   in   Marshfield, 

Aug.  4,   1741;    married   Sarah .     Their  children,   born  in 

Marshfield,  were: 

i.  Charles,5  b.  Oct.  11,  1764. 

ii.  Charlotte,  b.  March  IS,  17C6. 

iii.  Ll'CY,  b.  Jan.  10,  17GS. 

iv.  Nancy,  b.  Feb.  24,  1770. 

v.  Elizabeth,  b.  July  13,  1772. 

vi.  Folly,  b.  Jan.  2,  1775. 

19.  Capt.  Josi:rn4  Bryant  (Selh*  Thomas,7  John1  Sen.),  born  in  Marsh- 

field,  Feb.  13,  1713;  master  mariner.  Married  in  1788,  Sarah, 
daughter  of  Thomas  Little  of  Marshfield.  He  died  there  May  6, 
1796.  Will  dated  May  3,  1796;  Esqr.  His  first  wife  died  Nov. 
9,  1792.  He  married  secend  time  Unice  Otis  of  Scituate,  July  1st, 
1795.  (No  children.)  She  afterwards  married,  Nov.  17,  1799, 
Willis  Gift  of  Marshfield.     Capt.  Joseph's  children  were  : 

i.  Joseph,*  b.  Dec.  3,  1789.  He  went  to  Castine,  ire.,  when  twelve 
years  old,  and  lived  with  his  uncle  Otis  Little.  He  m.  Sept.  23, 
1816,  Sarah  Little  of  Bremen,  Me.  They  had  three  children.  His 
wife  d.  May  6,  1822.  He  m.  second  time  Abigail  Curtis  of  Sharon, 
Mass!  They  had  nine  children.  In  1835  he  moved  to  Bangor, 
where  he  d.  March  31,  1S63. 

ii.  Sally,  b.  xVug.  28,  1791 ;  m.  William  Witherle  of  Castine,  Me.,  Dec. 
25,  1815.  Their  children  were:  Sarah  II.,  William  H.  and  George 
H.     He  d.  in  April,  1860.     His  widow  d.  in  July,  1860. 

20.  Peleg4  Bryant   (Pcleg,3   Thomas,3  John1  Sen.),  born  in   Scituate  in 

1746;  married  by  Rev.  David  Barnes,  Lydia  Collomar  of  Scituate, 
Nov.  19,  1767.  He  died  there  in  1781.  Letter  of  administration 
is  dated  April  18,  1781.     Their  children,  born  in  Scituate,  were: 

i.  Ann,5  b.  in  1773. 
ii.  Mary,  b.  in  1777. 
iii.      Lydia,  b.  in  1779. 

21.  Zina*  Bryant  (Samuel*  Samuel?  Jofai3  Lieut.,  John1  Se?i.),  born  in 

Scituate,  Jan.  1,  1755;  married  by  the  Rev.  David  Barnes,  Unice 
Wade  of  Scituate,  Sept.  9,  1782.  Their  children,  born  in  Scituate, 
were : 

i.  Nancy,*  b.  Aug.  27,  1784. 

ii.  Zebalon,  b.  Sept.  5,  1786. 

24.  iii.  Gridley,  b.  Aug.  26,  1789;  engineer,  d.  June  13,  1867. 
iv.  Joseph,  b.  April"  28,  1792. 

v.       Foster,  b.  March  17,  1799. 

22.  En5  Bryant  (Benjamin,*  Benjamin?  Thomas,3  John1  Sen.),  born  in 

Chesterfield,  Mass.;  married  Susan  Warren  of  Williamsburgh,  Mas3. 
He  died  at  Chesterfield  in  1845;  land  owner.  Their  children 
were: 

25.  i.        Benjamin,*  b.  in  1797;  m.  Eliza  Benjamin. 
And  probably  others. 

23.  Nathaniel5  Bryant  (Nathaniel*  Seth?  Thomas,3  John1  Sen.),  born 

at  Scituate,  May  2,  1765;  ship  builder.  A  wealthy  and  iniluential 
business  mau  of  Newcastle,  Me.  He  had  yards  at  Newcastle  and 
Nobleborough,    and    carried    on    an    extensive    shipbuilding    trade. 


52  „         Descendants  of  John  Briant,  Sen.  [Jan. 

From  his  yards  was  launched  the  first  square  rigged  three  master 
built,  on  the  Damariscotta.  the  ship  Betsy.  During  Napoleonic 
wars  lost  several  vessels.  He  married  Oct.  1,  1795,  Mi>s  Betsy 
Wall  of  Bristol.  Me.  He  died  Jan.  9,  1835.  His  wife  died  Sept. 
12,  1 846.     Their  children,  born  in  Newcastle,  were: 

26.  i.        Harriet,*  b.  May  21,  179G;  m.  Lieut  Joseph  Smith,  U.  S.  N. 

27.  ii.       Ctjshing,  b.  July  18,  1797;  m.  Arlitta,  dau.  of  Dr.  Josiah  Myrick. 
iii.      Julia,  b,  Oct.  24,  1798;  m.  Lewis  Haiues. 

24.  Gridley6   Bryant    {Zina?    Samuel*    Samuel?   John2    Lieut.,  John1 

Sen.),  born  in  Scituate,  Aug.  26,  1789;  engineer.  Left  fatherless 
at  an  early  age,  and  when  fifteen  years  old  was  apprenticed  to  a 
builder  in  Boston.  Obtained  contract  for  building  the  United  States 
Bank,  and  other  public  buildings  in  Boston.  In  1823  he  invented 
the  portable  derrick.  Built  in  182G  the  first  railroad  in  America 
(between  Boston  and  Quincy).  For  many  years  he  was  engaged  in 
the  celebrated  law  suit  against  Ross  Winans  for  the  patent  for  the 
eight-wheeled  car  and  appliances  for  general  railway  use.  He  died 
at  Scituate,  June  13,  1867. 

25.  Benjamin6    Bryant    {Eli,6   Benjamin*   Benjamin?    Thomas?  John1 

Sen.),  born  in  Chesterfield,  Mass.;  married  in  June,  1823,  Eliza 
Benjamiu  of  Worthington,  Mass.  He  died  there  Aug.  9,  1854. 
Their  children,  born  in  Chesterfield,  were : 

i.  Monroe  Benjamin,7  b.  in  1824 ;  manufacturing  jeweler  of  New  York 

City, 

ii.  Eleanor,  b.  in  1826. 

iii.  Jonathan  Pomeroy,  b.  in  1828. 

iv.  Francis  Dwight,  b.  in  1830. 

v.  Elizabeth  Susan,  b.  in  1832. 

vi.  Ezra  Starkweather,  b.  in . 

vii.  Eliza  Ann,  b.  in . 

viii.  Cornelia  King,  b.  in . 

26.  Harriet8   Bryant    {Nathaniel?    Nathaniel?    Seth?   Thomas?   John1 

Sen.),  born  at  Newcastle,  May  21,  1796;  married  March  1,  1818, 
Lieut.  Joseph  Smith,  U.  S.  N.  (afterwards  Rear  Admiral).  She 
died  in  1855,  from  injuries  received  in  a  railway  accident.  Admiral 
Smith  died  Jan.  17,  1877.  (See  Register,  31 :  437.)  Their  chil- 
dren were: 

i.        Anna  Elizabeth7  Smith,  unm.,  living:  in  Washington,  D.  C 

ii.       Com.  Albert7  Smith,  U.  S.  N. ;  d.  at  Charlestown  Navy  Yard. 

iii.      Lieut.  Jos-Epn7  Smith,  U.  S.  N.    During  the  Civil  War  he  commanded 

the  Congress,  and  was  killed  in  the  encounter  with  the  Merrimac, 

March  8,  18G2. 
iv.     Josephine,7  d.  young. 

27.  Major  Cushing6  Bryant    {Nathaniel?  Nathaniel?  Seth?  Thomas? 

John1  Se?i.),  born  at  Newcastle,  July  18,  1797.  Shipbuilder;  mar- 
ried Sept.  25,  1821,  by  the  Rev.  Kiah  Bailey,  Miss  Arlitta,  daughter 
of  Dr.  Josiah  and  Mary  (Clark)  Myrick  of  Newcastle.  She  was 
seventh  in  descent  from  Thomas  Clark  of  Plymouth,  who  came  in 
the  Ann  in  1623,  and  fourth  in  descent  from  Joshua  Myrick  of  Har- 
wich, Mass.  He  was  graduated  from  Phillips  Exeter  Academy,  N.  H. 
Ensign,  2d  Mass.  Infantry,  1816.     Commissioned  Major  by  Gov. 


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53 


Brooks,  July  13,  1819.  Died  of  pneumonia  while  serving  as  en- 
rolling officer  Oct.  6,  1863.  His  wife  Arlitta  died  of  diphtheria, 
Dec.  18,  18(31.     Their  children,  horn  in  Nobleborough,  were: 

2S.   i.         Nathaniel  CrsmxG,7  b.  March  27,  1823;  m.  Mary  Eliza  Southall. 
ii.       JOSEPH  Myutck,  b.  July  1,  1825 ;  unm. 
iii.      Edward  Livingston,  b.  June  3,  1828;  d.  at  San  Francisco,  May  22, 

1851.  "Was  first  officer  of  Brig.  Colonel  Fremont. 
iv.  Helen  Maria,  b.  Sept.  25,  1830 f  d.  March  23,  1833. 
v.       Charles  Carroll,  b.  May  2,  1832:  d.  at  Portland,  Ore.,  Nov.  17, 

1873.     Had  two  daughters,  who  died  of  diphtheria  in  1880. 

28.  Commander  Nathaniel  Gushing7  Bryant,  U.S.  N.  (Cashing?  Na- 
thaniel? Nathaniel*  Selh,*  Thomas,2  John1  Sen.),  born  at  Noblebor- 
ough,  Me.,  March  27,  1  823  ;  married  by  the  Rev.  Mr.  Bush,  Sept.  19, 
I860,  Miss  Mary  Eliza,  daughter  of  Mark  John  and  Mary  (Yardley) 
Southall  of  Ashton-Under-Lyne,  Lancashire,  Eug.  Was  graduated 
from  U.  S.  Naval  School,  Philadelphia,  1843;  standing  fourth  in  a 
class  of  thirty-nine.  Lieut.  1850.  Commander  1862.  Served  through 
the  Mexican  War  and  the  American  Civil  War.  On  retired  list  from 
Sept.,  1864,  though  he  served  until  April,  1865.  He  died  at  his 
home,  Cedar  Falls,  Iowa,  Sept.  19,  1871.     Their  children  were: 

i.        Peijcy,*  b.  April  19, 18G2.     Was  graduated  from  medical  department, 

Columbia  College,  New  York  City. 
ii.       Walter,  b.  Oct.  1,  18G3.     Was  graduated  from  University  of  Iowa. 


INSCRIPTIONS  IN  THE  OLD  PROTESTANT  GRAVEYARD 
AT  ST.  AUGUSTINE,  FLORIDA. 

Communicated  by  B.  Frank  Leeds,  Esq. 
[Continued  from  vol.  xlvii.,  page  436.] 

Row  11. 
Israel  A.  Smith,  who  died  Sep.  1,  1830,  aged  20  years  and  6  mos. 
A  heavy  white  marble  monument  on  a  raised  brick  foundation. 


Maria  Frances,  daur  of  Jackson   Browne  French  of   Burlington,  New 
Jersey,  who  died  Feb.  4,  1832,  aged  29  years. 
Head  and  footstones. 


Mrs.    Lydia    Boyce,    a    native    of    Newberry    District.    So.    Car.,    who 
departed  this  life  on  the  27tu  day  of  September,"  1830,  aged  40  years. 
A  white  marble  monument. 


John   Scobie,  a  native  of  Perthshire,  Scotland,  who  departed  this   life 
August  31,  A.D.  1841,  aged  64  years. 

Margaret  Westrav,  wife  of  Nathaniel  C  Scobie,  born  March  25,  1810, 
died  Dec.  6,  1850.    " 
These  two  horizontal  slabs  on  raised  coquina  foundation. 


54  Inscriptions  at  St.  Augustine,   Florida.  [Jan. 

Carpenter,  1883. 

This  inscription  on  marble  tablet  which  is  let  into  the  upper  face  of  a 
moulded  slab  of  coquina.  The  slab  is  slightly  tilted  and  lies  east  of  the 
Margaret  W.  Scobie  slab. 


Thomas  H.  Dummett,  who  departed  this  life  the  318t  of  Aug.  1830,  aged 
64  years. 


John  Houston  M.  J.  Madison,  born  May  5,  1820,  died  Dec.  20.  1853, 
and  his  son  John  Ripley  Madison,  born  March  26,  1851,  died  May  6,  1852. 

The  slightly  depressed  lot  containing  the  above  two  horizontal  stones  is 
curbed,  and  midway  of  the  east  curbed  line  there  is  a  block  inscribed  with  the 
names  Dummett — Madison. 


Two  children's  graves  directly  adjoin  preceding,  the  western  one  with 
glazed  brick  edging  to  it,  the  other  with  white  marble  edging  and  headstone 
containing  the  name  Willie. 


North  of  this  line  of  graves  and  southeast  of  the  Douglas  Pacetti  grave 
are  the  two  following: 

Single  grave  with  cement  curb  and  head  and  footboard  but  no  inscription 
— an  evergreen  euonymus  within  curbing. 

A  grave  with  palings  around  in  very  shaky  condition — no  mark. 


Directly  adjoining  above  north — Rebecca  Nattiel,  died  April  11,  1879, 
aged  7-2  years. 

Another  similar  headboard  contains  simply  the  letters  J.  N.  Perhaps 
husband  of  R.  N. 

A  nicely  curbed  lot,  the  ground  within  depressed.     No  stoues. 
The  north  side  of  lot  two  feet  from  north  fence. 


Southeast  of  the  just-mentioned  curbed  lot,  the  corners  touching,  there  is 
a  large  lot  filled  with  lilies,  not  yet  in  flower,  surrounded  with  a  paling 
fence.  Also  a  single  grave  north  of  this  with  fence  surrounding  it — a 
large  water  oak  against  its  north  side.     No  monuments  in  either  enclosure. 


Wm  Thomas,  Jr.,  of  New  York  City,  who  departed  this  life  Dec.  27, 
1840,  aged  23  years. 
Marble  head  and  footstone. 


North  of  and  directly  adjoining  the  above  a  mound,  and  adjoining  this 
mound  northwardly  another  and  shorter. — Neither  marked. 

As  the  Thomas  grave  and  these  two  are  so  close  together,  the  interred 
may  be  related. 

These  succeed,  though  some  distance — 10  feet  north— from  the  two  children's 
graves  mentioned  above  on  this  page. 


Row  12. 
A  mouud  with  two  graves  covering  the  east  end  of  it— the  more  southerly 
has  a  cedar  tree  against  its  footstone. — No  inscriptions. 


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The  adjoining  lot  with  coquina  curbing  has  an  obelisk  at  its  centre — this 
of  granite  on  several  foundation  stones — the  lowest  of  coquiua  C  ft.  square. 

Its  inscription  as  follows  : 

Mrs.  Julia  G.  Smith — who  died  in  New  York  December,  1861.     Erected 
by  her  husband  Buckingham  Smith,  who  died  in  New  York  Jan.  1871. 
A  cedar  in  this  lot  has  pushed  one  of  the  stones  of  the  curbing  aside. 


A  headstone — broken — the  remnant  18  inches  square,  simply  rests  against 
the  inner  face  of  curbing  of  the  Julia  G.  Smith  lot.  Contains  following 
inscription : 

"William  C.  Kent,  of  Utica,  New  York,  who  died 


Hannah  Smith,  wife  of  late  Josiah  Smith,  who  died  in  November,   1857 
aged  80  years. 
Marble  head  and  footstone. 


Anita  Amelia  Smith,  wife  of  Dr.  John  B.  Porter,  surgeon  TJ.  S.  army, 
and  daughter  of  Josiah  and  Hannah  Smith  of  St.  Augustine,  born  Feb.  18, 
1815— died  July  25,  1850. 

A  6x10  marble  table  on  raised  coquiua  foundation,  with  marble  slab  contain- 
ing inscription  resting  on  the  former. 


Sarah  S.  Williams,  wife  of  John  Williams,  and  daughter  of  Lemuel  and 
Sarah  Williams,  of  New  Bedford,  Mass.  She  died  25th  Feb.  1839,  aged 
27  years. 

Vertical  head  and  footstone. 

Cast  iron  fence  around  lot  in  good  condition. 


Charlotte  Smith,  daur  of  David  Smith  and  Laura  Ufford,  born  at  Pitcher, 
Chenango  Co.,  New  York,  8th  May,  1833. — Died  at  Saint  Augustine  6th 
Dec.  1877. 

Upright  heavy  granite  headstone  with  two  granite  foundation  stones  below. 


Oscar  Ashton,  born  Jan.  21,  1839,  died  May  8,  1860. 
Vertical  head  and  footstone — a  water  oak  14  inches  in  diameter  west  of  head- 
stone. 


Douglas  D.  Pacetti,  born  March  11,  1862,  died  June  12,  1879. 
Wooden  headboard  with  paling  fence  around  grave— an  Acacia  Fame: 
ithin  fence. 
The  wooden  headboard  has  been  replaced  by  marble  head  and  footstone. 


A  child's  grave  with  paling  fence  around,  a  cherry  laurel  within,     >u 
6tone. 


Matilda  DeLancy,  died  Dec.  23,  1875,  aged  77  years.     Erected  by  her 
affectionate  daughter. 
A  low  vertical  head  and  footstone  of  marble  on  cement  foundation. 
[To  be  continaed.] 


PLAT  OF  THE 
ANCIENT  LINE  FEILDE 

Of 

CHARLESTOWN. 


1894.]  The  Ancient  Line  Feilde  of  Charhstovm.  57 


THE  ANCIENT  LINE  FEILDE  OF  CHARLESTONS. 

By  Geo.  A.  Gokdok,  A.M.,  of  Somerville,  Mass. 

The  extensive  territory,  partitioned  among  the  early  inhabitants 
uf  Charlcstown,  lying  without  the  settlement  and  accommodations 
at  the  harbor,  or  port,  was  denominated  in  common  speech  and  in 
the  public  record  under  several  divisions,  such  as  :  the  east  feilde, 
the  south  feilde,  the  high  feilde,  the  line  feilde,  Cambridge  feilde, 
Mistick  feilde,  Rockfeilde  and  Waterfeilde.  The  names  of  these 
fields  indicate  in  a  general  way  their  location. 

Among  the  papers  pertaining  to  a  suit  prosecuted  before  the 
Middlesex  County  Court,  during  the  closing  years  of  the  seventeenth 
century,  has  been  preserved  a  pen  and  ink  map,  which,  by  the 
courteous  permission  of  Theodore  C.  Hurd,  Esq.,  Clerk  of  the 
Courts,  has  been  phototyped  for  the  Register,  and  appears  on  the 
preceding  page. 

Comparison  with  the  descriptions  of  lots,  entered  in  the  Charles- 
town  Book  of  Possessions'  (1G38),  as  reprinted  in  the  Third  Report 
of  the  Record  Commissioners  of  the  City  of  Boston,  1878,  shows 
this  to  be  a  plat  of  the  southern  portion  of  the  ancient  r'line  feilde." 
Nothing  appears  on  its  face  to  determine  its  date  ;  but  a  column 
of  figures  in  the  lower  left  hand  corner,  not  here  shown,  would 
warrant  the  assignment  of  a  very  early  date,  perhaps  anterior  to 
any  known  map  of  the  locality.  The  names  of  certain  inhabitants, 
admitted  in  1637,  Thomas  Call,  James  Garrett  and  Matthew  Smith, 
in  connection  with  the  descriptions  in  the  Land  book,  covering  the 
most  of  these  properties,  may  assist  in  the  determination,  as  also  the 
following  abstract  from  the  Charlestown  Town  records  : 

Charlestowne  The  ix  month  the  13th  day 

1637. 
Such  as  are  to  fence  at  -      It  was  agreed  yl :  for  the  ^rownd  at  New  Towne 

newtowne    line    beyond  Line  beyond   Weuotamies  "such   as   fence  not   to 

•neuotaimes:  doe  it  with  ,  t,  J.  -.         it  „   .  ,     ,,r,       ., 

4  railes,  by  ye  20lh  of  ye  '00se  theire  pportions  there.  &  to  goe  turth    tor  it, 

2d  month,  or  loose  theire  the  fences  to  bee  finished  by  the  20th  of  ye  2d  month 

Land  &  goe  farthr  &  the  fence  to  bee  4  railes 

That  A  footway  bee  made  That  A  ffooteway   bee   made   over  ^Venotomies 

over  Wenotom'ies  lliver  &  a  way  bettween  the  Lotts  lefte  3  pole  wide 

Such  as  have  not  bought  And  such  as  have  not  bought,  or  built  &  fenced, 

builL  or  fenced  to  have  not  to  have  ppriety  untill    they    have   bought,  or 

no  ppmety  till  they  have  bflflt)  &  fen^# 

The  territory  is  entirely  within  the  limits  of  Arlington,  to-day, 
resting  for  three  quarters  of  a  mile  on  the  western  bank  of  Mystic 
river,  from  the  pond  down  to  the  mouth  of  Alewife  brook.     Mystic 
vol.   xlviii.  6 


58  .     Tlie  Ancient  Line  F elide  of  Gharlestown.  [Jan. 

river  and  pond,  to-day,  bear  the  same  names  they  did  two  hundred 
and  fifty  years  ago,  but  Menotomy  river  has  long  been  known  as 
Alewife  brook  and  marks  the  present  boundary  between  Cambridge 
and  Arlington.  Agreeable  to  this  map,  the  strip  of  land  along  the 
margin  of  this  little  stream  was  reserved  for  a  highway,  but,  if  it 
ever  was  so  improved,  no  memory  or  known  record  thereof  exists. 
The  bridgeway,  now  Broadway  and  Warren  streets  in  Arlington, 
extended  from  the  foot  bridge  to  the  bridge  below  Cooke's  mills, 
above  the  present  Arlington  cemetery  and  Gas  works.  The  high- 
way, leading  across  the  lots  to  "mistick  weare,"  is  substantially 
the  line  of  the  present  Medford  street.  The  other  way,  affording 
an  approach  to  the  river,  lower  down  and  below  the  islands,  is  now 
River  street. 

The  names,  written  upon  these  lots,  are  all  of  well  known  early 
inhabitants  of  Charlestown.  The  lots  of  the  most  may  be  identified, 
in  language  corresponding  with  their  position  on  this  map,  with 
entries  in  the  Charlestown  Book  of  Possessions.  Some  of  the  lots, 
even  thus  early,  had  been  sold,  and  appear  under  other  proprietors. 

Capt.  Edward  Johnson,  the  proprietor  of  the  lot  at  the  top  of  the 
plat,  was  a  carpenter  at  Charlestown  and  a  leading  citizen.  Sub- 
secmently  he  was  a  promoter  in  the  settlement  of  Woburn,  where 
he  served  till  his  death,  as  town  clerk,  and  as  representative  to  the 
General  Court,  of  which  he  was  Speaker.  He  was  the  author  of 
the  "  Wonder  Working  Providence."  His  possessions  [29],  en- 
tered in  the  Charlestown  Lands,  include  his  several  lots  on  this  map, 
as  follows : 

6.  ffoure  acres  of  earable  land  by  estimation,  more  or  lesse,  scituate  in  the 
line  feilde,  butting  southwest  upon  Cambridge  line,  northeast  upon  the 
bridge  way,  bounded  on  the  northwest  by  Nicolas  Stowers  and  on  the  southe 
east  by  A  high  way. 

.7.  foure  acres  of  land  by  estimation,  more  or  lesse,  scituate  in  the  line 
■feilde,  butting  southwest  upon  the  bridg-way,  north  east  upon  mistick 
pond,  bounded  on  the  north  west  by  Ed  Carrington  and  Pru  Wilkinson  and 
•  on  the  south  east  by  J  a  Browne. 

The  lot  next  adjacent  to  Edward  Johnson  on  the  Cambridge  line 
was  that  of  Thomas  Call,  and  is  described  in  the  same  Possessions 
[73] ,  as  follows : 

3.  ffoure  acres  of  earable  land  by  estimation,  more  or  lesse,  scituate  in 
the  line  feilde,  butting  northeast  upon  the  Bridgway,  bounded  on  the  west 
by  Edward  Johnson,  and  ou  the  southeast  by  Nicolas  Stowers,  A  triangle. 

The  vacant  lot  of  two  acres  between  Ralph  Sprague  and  Edward 
Johnson,  bordering  on  the  pond,  was  possessed  by  Pro  ;  Wilkinson, 
the  sole  instance  of  a  female  proprietor. 

The  lot  at  the  southwest  corner  of  the  bridgway  and  Menotomy 
river  was  that  of  John  Martin. 

The  opposite  lot  of  Mr.  Wetherell,  the  school  master,  was  sold  to 


1894.] 


Relloyg  Families  of  Colchester,  Conn. 


59 


John  Stretton,  who  possessed  the  vacant  lot  between  Martin  and 
Hennon  Garrett. 

The  list  comprises  thirty-six  names,  in  modern  spelling,  viz.  : 


Thomas  Alien 
Wn  l.atclmlder 
Wf  Brackenbury 
Jumes  Browne 
John  Barrage 
Thomas  Call 
E<lwd  Carjrington 
Edward  Convers 
Stephen  Fosdick 
Herman  Garrett 
James  Garrett 
John  Gould 


James  Hayden 
Robert  Hale 
Samuel  Hall 
Benj1  Hubbard 
James  Hubbard 
Edward  .Johnson 
Richard  Kettell 
Robert  Long 
Thomas  Lynde 
Francis  Norton 
"Walter  Palmer 
James  Pembertou 


Robert  Rand 

Robert  Sedgwick 
Dan1  Shepherdson 
Matthew  Smith 
Ralph  Sprague 
Nicholas  Stowers 


Zachai 


•>ymrnes 


Joshua  Tead 
John  Tid 
Nicholas  Trerice 
Wm  Wetherell 
Tho9  Whittemore 


THE  KELLOGG  FAMILIES  OF  COLCHESTER,  COXX. 

By  James  H.  Perri.v,  Esq.,  of  Lafayette,  Indiana. 

The  chief  sources  from  which  the  following  is  taken  are  the  town  records 
of  Hebron,  Colchester,  Hadley  and  Hatfield;  Judd's  History  of  Hadley; 
Randall's  Colchester  Epitaphs,  in  the  Register  for  188'J ;  and  the  Kellogg 
articles  in  the  Register,  xii.,  201-6,  xiv.,  xv.,  125-32.  The  last  articles 
mention  four  early  Kelloggs,  antecedents  unknown  : 

i.  Lihut.  Joseph,  of  Farmington,  Boston,  and  Hadley,  descendants 
given. 

ii.        Nathaniel,  Hartford  1C39,  removed  to  Farmington. 

iii.  Samuel,  supposedly  brother  of  the  above  Nathaniel,  settled  at  Hat- 
field. 

iv.      Daniel,  settled  at  Norwalk  1635,  descendants  given. 

The  present  article  gives  some  account  of  the  Samuel  falsely  supposed 
to  be  a  "  brother  of  the  above  Nathaniel."  As  Nathaniel  was  adult  in 
1G39,  while  Samuel  was  not  married  until  1664,  they  seem  unlikely  to 
have  been  brothers,  especially  as  Samuel  is  not  mentioned  in  the  will  of 
Nathaniel.*  An  account  is  also  given  of  the  descendants  of  f>benezer  and 
Jonathan  Kellogg,  sons  of  Lieut.  Joseph,  referred  to  in  the  Register  for 
April,  I860,  as  having  removed  to  Colchester.  Pedigrees  of  allied  families 
have  been  traced  back,  whenever  possible,  to  the  first  person  of  the  name  in 
Colchester. 

The  writer  will  be  grateful  for  any  information  concerning  the  ancestry 
of  the  Samuel  Kellogg  whose  descendants  are  here  given. 


#_,&ePorda  of  the  Particular  Court,  Hartford,  ii.  118.  will  of  Nathan"  Keloi,  June  4 
16.),  :  Being  weak  in  body  *  *  *  gjv«H  whole  estate  to  dear  and  loving  wife  Elizabeth  Kelog 
dumu'  her  life,  after  her  death  alt  his  houses  and  lands  in  Farmington  to  his  brother  .Mm 
Kelog  and  to  sister  Jane  Aallisun  and  sister  R-ichel  Cane,  altdwelling  in  old  Ensland.  they 
to  p. >v  to  cousin  Joseph  Keiog's  three  children  >ix  pounds  sterling  to  be  divided  equally 
betwixt  them  •  »  «.    Inventory  Dec  21  16-57,  £3CG:5. 


60  Kellogg  Families  of  Colchester,  Conn.  [Jan. 

1.  Samuel1   Kkllogg-  was  probably  born   prior  to  1642;  died  at  Hat- 

field, Mass.,  Jan.  17,  1711.  Married  1st,  Nov.  24,1664,  Sarah, 
widow  of  Nathaniel  Gunn  of  Hartford,  and  daughter  of  Robert 
Day,*  of  Hartford.  She  was  killed  by  the  Indians,  19th  Sep.  1677. 
Married  2d,  March  20.  1679,  Sarah,  daughter  of  Thomas  Rooff  of 
Westfield.J  She  died  Jan.  5,  1719. 
Children  : 

2.  i.        Samuel,-  b.  Hadley,  April  11,  1669. 

At  Hatfield: 

3.  ii.        Nathaniel,  b.  June  4,  1671. 
iii.       Ehexezer,  b.  June  2,  1674. 

iv.       Joseph,  b.  Sept.  0,  1676;  killed  by  the  Indians  Sept.  19,  1C77. 

v.        John,  b.  April  25,  16S0;  resided  at    Hatfield;    d.   probably   nam. 

Will  1755. 
vi.      Thomas,  b.  Oct.  21.  1681;  d.  unra.    Hatfield  prior  to  1758. 
vii.      Sakah,  b.  April  13,  1683;  m.  May  S,  1701,  "  by  Rev.  Isaac  Chauncy," 

to  Abraham  Morton  of  Hatfield. 

2.  Samuel2  Kellogg  (Samuel1)  was  born  at  Hadley,  April  II,  1669; 

removed  after  1701  to  Colchester,  Conn.,  where  he  died  August  24, 

1708.      Married  1690   Hannah3   Dickinson, §  who  was   born   16G6, 

died   August    3,  1715.     Will   of    Mrs.   Hannah,  dated    Colchester, 

April .  18,    1745,    mentions    following   children.      Proved    Jan.   7, 

1715-6. 

Children,  all  born  at  Hatfield: 

4.  i.        Samuel,3  b.  May  IS,  1694. 

5.  ii.       Joseph,  b.  June  IS,  1696. 
iii.      Haxxati,  b.  Sept.  11,  1699. 

iv.      Eunice,  b.  August  3,  1701;  m.  July  11,  172S,  Benj.  Qufterfield. 

3.  Sergt.  Nathaniel2  Kellogg  (Samuel1)  was  born  at  Hatfield  1671  ; 

died  at  Colchester  August  22,  1757.     Married  1st,  Margaret 

who  died  Dec.  13,  1747,  ve.  71;  married  2d,  May  29,  1748,  widow 
Priscilla  Williams  of  Colchester.  Will  dated  1756;  proved  1757; 
mentions  numbers  of  his  children  and  graudchildren.  (  Vide  Ran- 
dall's Colch.  Epitaphs.) 

The  following  curious  extract  is  from  the  old  Colonial  Record3 
of  Connecticut  :j| 

"  At  a  meeting  of  the  Governour  and  Council  May  24,  1712.  Present, 
The  Honourable  Gurdon  Saltonstall,  Esqr  Governour etc 

"Whereas  Jonathan  Bigelo  went  from  Hartford  post  to  New  London, 
in  a  deep  snow  last  winter,  being  agreed  by  Major  Talcot  and  Mr  Lord, 
deceased,  to  find  a  horse  and  subsistence  at  his  own  cost,  and  allowed 
double  post  wages,  the  said  Bigelo  nevertheless  applied  to  M'  Tainter, 
justice  of  peace  at  Colchester,  to  have  a  horse  impressed  for  him 
from  Colchester  to  New  London,  and  the  said  justice  having  impressed 
for  him  a  good  horse  of  Nathu  Kellogge  of  the  same  town,  which  horse 

*  Robert  Dav  came  in  "  Elizabeth,"  from  Ipswich,  Co.  Suffolk,  England,  to  Boston,  Apr. 
1631,  se.  30,  with  wife  Mary,  w.  28.     Vide  Hist.  Hartford. 

t  Thomn=;  Root  was  at  Salem  1637;  Hartford  1639;  removed  about  1659  to  Northampton, 
where  he  was  one  of  the  seven  founders  of  a  church  1661 ;  died  there  July  17,  1694. 

t  Judd. 

$  Nathaniel1  Dickinson  came  to  Wethersfield  from  England  1637.  Rep.  1646-c6.  (Re- 
moved to  Hadley  1659.     Died  June  16,  1676.) 

Nathaniel2  Dickinson,  son  of  above,  born  Antrnst  1643,  or  perhaps  four  vears  earlier;    rn. 

1st,  1662,  Hannah ,  who  died  Feb.  23,  1679;  rn.  2d,  16">0,  widow  Elizabeth  Gillett; 

m.  3d,  1684,  Elizabeth,  widow  Samuel  Wright.     He  died  Oct.  11,  1710. 

Hannah3  Dickinson,  daughter  of  above,  born  1666. 

D  Transcribed  and  published  by  Charles  J.  Hoadly,  State  Librarian. 


1894.]  ' Kellogg  Families  of Colchester,  Conn.  63 

cbester  May  6,   1720;   married    May  27,  1745,  Anna   Dewey  of 
Hebron.     Children  at  Hebron  : 

i.  Anna,3  b.  April  18,  1746:  m.  June  17,  1773,  Solomon,  son  of  Thomas 
Teirin,  Jr.,  and  Jerusha  Porter  (see  Porter  Gen.,  1893).  Resided 
at  Vernon,  where  she  d.  Sept.  8,  182(5.  Childrea:  1.  Anna,  m. 
Reuben  Sumner.  2.  Jerusha,  m.  Henry  P.  Sumner.  3.  Solomon, 
m.  Salem,  Ya.,  Sarah  Neal,  dau.  Joel  Bott  aud  Lucy  May  ;  d.  1S33, 
New  Orleans,  leaving  son  James  Joel,  who  m.  Margaret,  dau. 
Judge  Samuel  Cason  of  Indiana,  4.  Aaron,  m.  Lois  Lee.  5. 
Asahel,  post.  ext. 

ii.  Daniel,  b.  Sept,  10.  1747;  m.  May  31,  1770,  Rachel  Taylor  of 
Chatham.     Revolutionary  soldier. 

iii.      Mary,  b.  Sept.  3,  1749. 

iv.      Hannah,  b.  June  16,  1752;  d.  inft. 

v.        Hannah,  b.  May  7,  1756. 

vi.      Chaki.es,  b  Aug.  8,  1763 ;  d.  inft. 

vii.     Abigail,  b.  June  19,  1705. 

viii.   Charles,  b.  July  18,  1772. 


Som-e  Descendants  of  Lieut.  Joseph  Kellogg. 

1.  Ebenezer8  Kellogg  (Joseph1)  was  born  at  Hadley  Nov.  13,  1C77; 

married  July  6,  1706,  Colchester,  Mabel  Butler,  who  died  Sept.  3, 
1742,  te.  60.     He  died  August  22,  174G.     Children: 

i.        Abigail,3  b.  June  25,  1707;  in.  Samuel  Gillett. 

ii.       £bkxezer,  b.  Jan.  30,  1709-10;  m.  May  10,  1752,  Abigail2  "  Row- 
;    lee";  d.  Feb.  9,  1788.     (Elnathan1  Rowley  and  Abigail  Cone  m. 
Dec.  26,  1723.     Abigail1  dau.  b.  Oct.  2,  1730.) 

1.  Abigail,  b.  Jan.  27,  1754;  d.  young. 

2.  Ebenezer,  b.  March  16,  1756. 

3.  Abiaail,  b.  Dec.  29,  1758. 

4.  Mabel,  b.  August  3,  1763. 

5.  Butler,  b.  July  21,  1766;  m.  Jan.  9,  1783,  Sarah  Treadway.     She 
d.  Jan.  9,  1845,  aa.  73. 

iii.      Elizabeth,  b.  Sept.  25,  1712. 

iv.      Makv,  b.  Jun.  3,  1715;  m. Merrils. 

v.       Prudence,  b.  Dec.  24,  1717;  m.  May  6,  1736,  Wm.  Roberts,  son  of 
Win.  Roberts  aud  Elizabeth  Northain,  who  were  m.  July  20,  1705. 

2.  Jonathan2  Kellogg  (Joseph1)  was  born  at  Hadley  Dec.  25,  1679; 

married  Jan.  3,  1710-11,  Ann,  daughter  of  James  Newton  of 
Kingston,  R.  I.  She  was  born  April  13.  1692;  died  August  14, 
1769.     Jonathan  died  August  8,  1771.     Children: 

i.        Jonathan,3  b.  at  Colchester  Sept.  18,  1712;  m.  Jan.  5,  1735,  Mary 
Riles. 

1.  Margery,  b.  Sept.  6,  1738. 

2.  Martin',  b.  "last  Sabbath  in  January,  1740-1;"  m.  Feb.  4,  1762, 

Sarah  Treadway  (?)     See  p.  64. 
ii-       Joseph,  b.  June  6,  1714;  d.  probably  June  16,  1762.     Married  Jan. 

15,  1740-1,  Sarah  Clark,  dau.  John  Clark  and  Mindwell ,  b. 

August  13,  1723. 

1.  Silas,  b.  August  25,  1742. 

2.  j^fiw,  b.  Mav  21.  1745. 

3.  Sarah,  b.  August  11,  1749. 

4.  Anna,  b.  Sept.  23,  1752. 

)»•      Margaret,  b.  August  10,  171G. 
Iv.      Stephen,  b.  March  15,  1724. 

v.       Sins,  b.  Jan.  11,  1732-3;  m.  June  21,  1763,  Sarah  Kook. 
1.  Molly,  b.  April  26,  1769. 


64  ,  The  New-England  Primer.  [Jan, 

2.  -Joseph,  b.  Dec.  2,  1770;   d.  youug. 

3.  Sarah,  b.  July  11,  1772. 

vi.     Martin,  b.  Feb.  15,  1734-5;  m.  Feb.  4,  1762,  Sarah  Treadway  (?). 
See  p.  63.  J  y  J 

1.  Bethiah,  b.  Oct.  24,  17C2. 

2.  Martin,  b.  Dec.  16,  1764. 

3.  Jonathan,  b.  May  4,  1767. 

4.  JSce,  b.  Feb.  4,  1770. 


Disconnected. 
William,  son  of  Moses  Kellogg,  boru  at  Colchester,  Jan.  28,  1756. 

Israel  Kellogg  and  Abigail  Northam  married  at  Colchester,  Jan. 
31,  1752.  He  died  Feb.  12,  1784,  ae.  63.  She  died  June  9,  1780,  a?.  50. 
Children: 

i.    •  Jonathan,  b.  Oct.  10.  1754. 
ii.      Israel,  b.  May  18,  1756. 
iii.    Amos,  b.  Aug.  5,  1753. 
iv.     Abigail,  b.  Nov.  15,  1760.  ■ 

Aaron  Kellogg  married  at  Colchester,  July  10,  1740,  Mary,  dau.  Ben- 
jamin Lewis.     Children: 

i.  Lucy,  b.  Mar.  21,  1741 ;  d.  inft. 

ii.  Lucv,  b.  Feb.  19,  1742 ;  m.  May  26,  176S,  Eliphalet  Chamberlin. 

iii.  Solomon,  b.  July  14,  1744. 

iv.  *  Aaron,  b,  Aug.  9,  1746 ;  m.  July  3,  1766,  Rhoda  Jones. 

v.  Lvdia,  b.  Feb.  23,  1749. 

vi.  Mary,  b.  Aug.  23,  1751 ;  m.  May  31,  1763,  Isaac  Foote. 

vii.  Hannah,  b.  Mar.  17,  1754. 

viii.  Daxiel,  b.  Sept.  3,  1756. 

ix.  Lovina,  b.  Mar.  10,  1760. 


A  FRESH  XOTE  OX  THE  XETT-EXGLAXD  PRIMER. 

By  the  Rev.  B.  F.  DeCosta,  D.D.,  of  Mew  York  City. 

The  New  England  Primer  is  too  well  known  to  be  described, 
and  yet  it  has  raised  very  many  difficult  questions.  The  origin  of  the 
Primer  has  been  a  moot  question,  yet  it  is  now  beyond  doubt 
that  the  world  owes  the  origin  of  the  immortal  Primer  to  the  Church 
of  England,  and  that  it  was  an  improvement  on  the  ancient  Horn 
Book  ;  though  it  is  probable  that  among  the  Greeks,  and  even  the 
Egyptians,*  the  Primer  idea  had  its  place,  the  instruction  of  children 
being  committed  to  women.  The  writer  has  not  been  able  to  carry 
out  the  desire  to  attempt  a  very  much  fuller  investigation  than 
those  who  have  preceded  him ;  but,  in  doing  so,  he  would  begin 
with  the  Egyptians  and  the  Greeks.     Before  the  seventeenth  cen- 

•Tliis  is  suggested  to  me  by  a  relic  on  the  Egyptian  Collections  of  the  New  York  Histori- 
cal Society. 


1894.]  ,■         The  New-England  Primer.  Go 

tury,  the  Primer  was  being  formulated,  and  it  is  singular  that 
there  should  have  been  so  much  speculation  with  regard  to  the 
origin  of  the  famous  lines, 

"In  Adam's  fall 
We  sinned  all,"  &c. 

Those  who  desire  to  study  the  subject,  and  make  needed  correc- 
tions of  some  statements  of  the  Hon.  J.  Hammond  Trumbull,  in 
the  Sunday  School  Times,  April  2d  and  May  6,  1882,  might  turn 
to  a  rather  obscure  book,  entitled  "St.  Augustine's  Manuell,"  Lon- 
don, 1577,  where  1  find  "Adam's  fall"  done  up  in  rhyme.  Also 
an  examination  of  the  Lenox  copy  of  the  Primer  would  show  the 
error  in  regard  to  the  portrait  he  mentions. 

Let  me  quote  as  follows  from  the  "Manuell" : 

1  Bv  Adams  shine. 

2  Death  did  begvn. 

3  And  by  his  fall. 

4  We  perish  all. 

5  But  Christ  is  iust. 

6  In  him  haue  trust. 

7  And  his  iustice. 

8  Makes  thee  right  -wise. 

9  As  you  are.     So  were  we. 

10  As  we  be.     So  shall  ye. 

11  So  discust,  dye  thou  must. 

12  But  lvue  for  euer. 

13  In  Christ  thy  Sauer. 

14  Fast  and  pray. 

15  Fitie  the  poore. 
1G  *Kepent  amend. 

17  And  siune  no  more. 

18  Whilest  though  hast  breath. 

19  Kemember  death. 

20  As  graue  I  passe. 

21  From  that  I  was. 

22  I  hope  agavne. 

23  With  Christ  to  raigne. 

24  Both  ill  and  iust. 

25  Death  brynges  to  dust. 

26  Yet  none  tell  can. 

27  The  houre  nor  when. 

28  By  favth  take  hold. 

29  In  Christ  be  bold. 

30  From  canekred  rust. 

31  Christ  shall  make  iust. 

St.  Augustine's  Jfanuell,  London,  1577. 

I  am  informed  that  they  have  in  the  British  Museum  specimens 
of  a  "  Horn  book"  printed  on  folio,  single  sheets,  without  date  ;  but 
to  which  conjectural  dates  of  1620,  1700,  1750,  are  assigned.     They 

Line  10  is  repeated  twice  in  full,  the  third  time  to  16,  and  then  as  follows : 


16 

God  geueth  all. 

17 

Christ  obtaineth  all. 

18 

The  holv  Ghost. 

10 

Certifietii  all. 

20 

Faythe  appre 

21 

hendeth  all. 

22 

Workes  testifieth  all. 

QQ  -         The  Kirtland  or  Kirkland  Family.  [Jan. 

have  also  au  edition  of  the  Primer  of  King  Henry  VIII.  in  the 
Museum  library,  but  without  the  "A.  B.  C.  and  Catecliisin     pre- 

Th'e  following  I  have  not  been  able  to  examine,  but  I  hope  that 
some  one  with  leisure  may  do  so. 

John  TTayland  r-0 

Printed  in  English,  for  children,  after  the  use  of  Sarurn  looo. 

Gahriel  Harvey 

Pieces  of  Poetry  prefixed  to  Primers  Almanacs,  &c. 
Thomas  Milles  ;  . 

The  Customer's  Alphabet  and  Primer,  1604. 
Francis  Loowick  > 

An  essay  concerning  an  universal  Trimer,  lo/l>. 

Who  will  take  up  the  investigation  and  give  the  full  story  of  the 
genesis  of  the  New  England  Primer  ? 


THE  KIRTLAXD  OR  KIRKLAXD   FA]\IILY. 

By  V.  C.  Sanborn,  of  La  Grange,  111. 

Although  from  time  to  time  many  facts  have  come  to  light  as  to  the 
ori-in  of  the  Kirkland  family,  no  published  collection  of  these  facts  exists. 
The  four  principal  sources  of  information  about  this  family  are:  ? 

1.  Dr.  Lothrop's  Memoir  of  Rev.  Samuel  Kirkland,  in  Sparks  s 
"  Library  of  American  Biography." 

2.  Savage's  ?« Genealogical  Dictionary."  _'.       .    . 

3.  Mr.  F.  W.  Chapman's  "Kirtland  Family"  (Register, Vol.  xiv.), 
and  his  published  "  Pratt  Genealogy." 

4.  Lewis  and  New-hall's  "  History  of  Lynn."  _ 

Dr.  Lothrop's  account  was  the  earliest,  forming  a  basis  for  future  re- 
searches; and  as  his  account  has  been  very  generally  accepted,  it  seem3 
advisable  to  quote  it  here,  in  order,  by  the  genealogy  given  later,  to  em- 
phasize the  corrections  which  have  been  made  by  discoveries  subsequent 
to  1845,  when  Dr.  Lothrop  published  his  memoir.     He  says: 

"The  Kirkland  familv,  as  the  name  shows,  is  of  Scotch  descent.  In  this 
country  it  may  be  traced  back  to  Saybrook.  Ct.,  in  1  63o.  Among  the  ob 
heads  of  families  who  were  the  early  settlers  of  that  place,  the  name  of 
John  Kirkland  appears,  who  is  said  to  have  come  from  Silver  bt.,  London. 
He  had  a  son  John,  who  was  the  father  of  ten  children **  whom  Rev. 
Daniel  Kirkland  was  the  youngest  but  one,  and  born  in  1/01. 

In  fact,  John  Kirtland  was  not  one  of  the  early  settlers  of  Saybrook.  for 
he  did  not  move  there  till  1672,  nor  have  I  been  able  to  find  any  authority 
for  the  statement  that  he  came  from  Silver  St.,  London.  Mr.  Chapman  I 
believe,  discovered  in  the  Saybrook  records  the  connection  between  John 
Kirtland  of  Saybrook  and  Nathaniel  of  Lynn;  and  Mr  S.  G.  Drake  pub- 
lished in  his  "Founders  of  New  England"  (Register  Vol.  nv .)  the  sail- 
in*  list  of  the  Hopew$tl  in   1635,  with  names  of  the  brothers  1  hilip  and 


1804.1  The  Kirtland  or  Kirlcland  Family.  67 

Nathaniel  Kirtland  as  passengers.  Lewis  and  Newhall's  "  History  of 
Lynn"  gives  much  fragmentary  information  about  Philip  and  Nathaniel; 
and  Savage  supplements  this  with  many  dates  and  facts.  But  an  essential 
Jink  in  the  Lynn  records  seems  to  have  been  overlooked  by  these  authors, 
namely,  that  "in  1633,  when  Philip  and  Nathaniel  were  hut  24  and  22  years 
of  a-c  respectively,  there  were  tiro  Philip  Kirtlands  in  Lynn.  This  point 
establishes  a  connection  between  the  American  settlers  and  a  certain  John 
Kirtland  of  Buckinghamshire,  whose  will  I  quote  hereafter. 

Before  tabulating  the  early  generations,  let  me  say  a  word  as  to  the 
family  name,  All  the  records  show  that  the  name  of  our  family  was  spelled 
"Kirtland."  "  Kyrtland"  or  "Kertland"  from  1616  to  1773,  both  in  this 
country  and  in  England.  On  what  authority  rests  the  present  spelling,  I 
Cannot  sjiy;  Dr.  Lothrop  thought  that  the  family  was  of  Scotch  descent;  and 
probably  the  change  from  Kirtland  to  Kirklaud,  as  a  supposed  original 
spelling,  was  made  about  1780  by  Rev.  Samuel  Kirkland,  and  soon  after 
was  adapted  by  his  connections.  His  brother  Joseph,  writing  in  1773  to 
another  brother,  John,  announcing  the  death  of  their  father,  Rev.  Daniel 
Kirtland.  signs  his  name  and  directs  his  letter  "  Kirtland."  This  letter  is 
now  in  the  possession  of  Major  Kirkland  of  Chicago. 

The  name  "Kirtland"  is  not  to  be  found  in  English  records  or  pedigrees, 
so  far  as  I  have  been  able  to  ascertain.  In  Essex,  in  the  loth  century, 
Peter  de  Kirteling  appears  as  the  witness  to  a  grant  of  laud ;  but  no  further 
mention  of  tl)3  name  occurs.  No  family  of  that  name  registered  its  pedigree 
at  the  Herald's  Visitations  of  Buckinghamshire  or  elsewhere.  '"•Kirtland" 
may  be  derived  from  "  Curtland"  (meaning  lack-land),  and  Burke's 
"  General  Amory"  describes  the  arms  of  Curtland  (no  location  given)  as, 
Or,  three  cinquefoils  pierced  gides.  The  name  "Kirkland"  however,  is  an 
old  English  name;  the  family  being  situated  principally  in  Cumberland, 
and  the  "  General  Armory"  gives  the  coat  of — '•  Kirkland  ":  (Kirkland, 
County  Lancaster,  Brampton,  County  Derby;  founded  by  Gamel.  Lord  of 
Kirkland,  County  Derby,  and  Eastbourne,  County  Sussex,  temp.  William  I.) 
Sable,  three  mullets  argent  within  a  bordure  engrailed  or,  quartering  Kirk- 
land (ancient)  Sable,  three  mullets  argent." 

A  clue  to  the  origin  of  the  American  family  is  furnished  by  the  will  of 
John  Kirtland  of  Newport-Pagnell,  Bucks.,  England,  dated  1616.  Mr. 
II.  F.  Waters  printed  this  will  in  the  Register,  Vol.  xli.,  page  60,  and 
I  quote  his  abstract: 

"  John  Kirtland  of  Tickford  in  the  parish  of  Newport-Pagnell,  County  Bucks., 
Gentleman,  12  Dec,  161H,  proved  1  Aug.  1017.  To  son  Nathaniel  all  that  part 
of  my  dwelling  house  in  Tickford  wherein  I  now  inhabit,  sometime  called  by  J 
the  name  of  Emberton's,*  adjoiniug  to  the  tenement  in  tenure  of  William  Con-  V 
Ingham  and  to  the  house  and  ground  of  me  the  said  John  Kirtland.  sometime" 
Thomas  Horton's.  Legacies  to  Mary  Kirtland  my  now  wife,  sons  Fraucis  and 
Joseph  Kirtland  and  daughters  Abigail,  Susanna  and  Mary  Kirtland.  To  my  eldest 
sou  John  Kirtland  the  house  or  tenement  sometime  Thomas  Horton's  (next  the 
alnjve)  and  adjoining  a  tenement  of  heirs  of  William  Barton  deceased.  Wife 
Mary  and  her  five  children  as  above.  To  godson  John  Kirtland,  son  of  my 
brother  Philip  Kirtland,  \\<,  4d,  and  to  the  rest  of  the  children  of  the  said 
Philip  2s  Gtl  each  to  be  paid  unto  the  said  Philip  for  their  use.  To  the  children 
of  my  brother  Fras.  Kirtland  2s  Gd  apiece.  To  Francis  Foster  clerk  10s.  Wife 
Mary  to  be  executrix,  friends  Geo.  Hull  and  Jno.  Horley  of  Newport-Pagnell  to 
be  ovtTMtrs. 

"  r'hjlip  Kyrtland  one  of  the  witnesses.  Weldon,  82." 

♦  "  I'aganus  de  Emberton,  of  Tykford  Priory,  Bucks.,  1187,"  Dugdale's  "  Monasticon." 


68  \      The  Kirtland  or  Rirhland  Family.  [Jan. 

From  the  above  it  will  be  seen  that  the  American  Kirtland  family  starts 
with : — 

1.  (John1  ?)  Kirtland, — of  whom  we  know  only  (from  his  son  John's 

will)  that  he  had, — 

2.  i.         Joiix.-  born  about  1580. 

3.  ii.       Philip,  born  about  15S5. 

iii.      Francis,  born  about  1590,  married  and  had  children. 

2.  John2  Kirtland  (John  ?*)  of  Tickford  in  the  parish  of  Newport-Pag- 

nell,  Bucks.,  "Gentleman";  his  will  quoted  above,  names  the  fol- 
lowing children : 

i.        John.3  iv.  Josefh.3 

ii.        Nathaniel.3  v.  Abigail.8 

iii.     Francis.3  vi.  Susanna.3 

vii.  Mary.3 

3.  Philip2  Kyrtland  or  Kertland   (John?1)   probably  of  Sherring- 

ton, Bucks.,  witness  to  his  brother  John's  will  in  1616,  mentioned 
in  that  will  as  having  son  John  and  other  children.     No  record  of 
his  taking  passage  for  New  England.     Lewis  says  Philip  Kertland, 
first  shoemaker  of  Lynn,  Mass.,  came  there  in  1635.     This  may  have 
been  Philip2  the  father  or  Philip3  his  sou;  the  latter  we  know  came 
over  in  1 635.    Probably  Lewis  confused  the  two,  as  have  others.    The 
first  defiuite  record  of  Philip  Kertland  Senior  is  in  163S.  when  10 
acres  in  Lynn  were  granted  to  "  Philip  Kertland  Senior1''  and  10 
acres  to  "  Philip  Kertland  Junior."     (Lewis  &  Newhall).  _  In  1643 
the  father's  signature  appears  on  Goody  Armitage's  petition,  a  fac- 
simile of  the  signatures  being  given  in  the  Register  for  January 
1879,  page  61.     (This  may  have  been  the  signature  of  son  Philip, 
but  I  think  he  was   then  'on    Long  Island.)     Children  of  Philip* 
by  wife  unknown, — 
i.        John3,  born  1607,  mentioned  by  name  in  his  godfather  and  uncle 
John's  will,  1616.     In  1659  he  made  deposition  as  to  his  brother 
Philip's    estate.      Residence    unknown;    perhaps    at    Saybrook, 
where  lived  his  sister  Susanna  Wastall,  who  in  16S3  gave  to  h^r 
''childless  brother  John"   a  small  house  and  lot  in  Saybrook. 
Perhaps  also  this  is  the  John  who  was  supposed  by  Dr.  Lothrop 
to  have  been  the  father  of  John4.      No  record  is  found  of  his 
death. 

4.  ii.        Philip3,  born  16H. 

5.  iii.      Nathaniel,3  born  1616.  ^      ^ 

iv.  Susanna,3  birth  unknown,  married  John  Wastall  or  Westall  of 
Wetherslleld.  He  was  a  Deputy  there  in  1643,  Goodwin  ;ays,  and 
moved  to  Saybrook  in  1653,  says  Savage;  selectman  in  Saybrook, 
a  prominent  man  there,  and  ailovved  to  keep  an  Inn  in  1663.  He 
died  in  1683,  and  left  a  srood  estate  to  adopted  son  John4  Kertland. 
Susanna  Wastall  died  1684. 

4.  PuiLir3  Kvrtland  or  Kertland  (Philip,2  John?1),  born  in  1614,  was 

too  young  to  be  mentioned  by  name  in  his  uncle  John's  will  in  161 6; 
he  was  one  of  the  other  "children  of  brother  Philip"  there  men- 
tioned. His  earliest  definite  record  is  on  the  sailing  list  of  the  ship 
Hopewell  from  London  April  1,  1635,— "  Philip  Kyrtkmd,  from 
Sherrington  in  Bucks.,  aged  21 ;  Nathaniel  Kyrtland  from  Sherring- 
ton in  Bucks,  aged  19."  "  (See  under  Philip2  for  possible  items  about 
him  in  Lynn  records.)     In  1638  was  granted   10  acres  by  town  of 


189 4.]  The  Kirtland  or  Kirliand  Family. 


69 


Lynn.  In  1640,  lie  and  his  brother  Nathaniel,8  with  many  other 
Lynn  people,  settled  on  Long  Island,  but  Philip3  must  soon  have  re- 
turned to  Lynn,  from  the  dates  of  his  children's  births  on  the  Lyun 
records.  In  1652  he  bought  from  Nathaniel  Tyler  his  house  and 
lands  in  Lynn.  Philip5  died  before  1059,  for  we  find  in  Salem 
Court  Files  July  17th,  1659,  the  following: 
««  Deposition  of  John  Kirtland,  aged  about  52.  I  often  heard  my  brother 
l'hylip  say  oft  tiiues  that  his  wife  should  have  all  hee  had  to  dispose  of  so 
long  as  she  live  ;  and  to  my  best  remeraberance  hee  gave  £15  to  his  dafter 
Mary  and  £10  to  his  dafter  Sara,  £10  to  his  dafter  Susanna  aud  ,£10  to 
his  dafter  Hanna,  this  to  be  giuen  to  them  at  ye  day  of  marriag,  the 
land  not  to  be  sould  so  long  as  she  liues." 

William  Hardier  of  Lynn,  aged  about  65,  stated  that  when  Philip 
Kertland  was  going  to  sea  he  told  him  substantially  as  above. 
On  October  14th,  1659,  Evan  Thomas  (a  viutner  who  came  to 
Boston  from  Wales,  with  wife  Jane  and  four  children,  in  1640), 
announces  his  intention  of  marrying  the  widow  Alice  Kertland  of 
Lynn;  and  he  made  convevance  of  estate  in  trust  for  her  children 
April  24,  1661.  By  wife  Alice,  Philip  Kertland  had  the  following 
children,  all  born  in  Lynn: 

i.         Mary4,  born  June  3,  1640. 

H.        Sarah4,  born  September   27,  164G,  married  John  Davis,  October 

5,  1661. 
Hi.       Susanna4,  born  March  S,  1652. 

y"      SmSSnX  H»s'  bo™  J«ne  12'  1G5i' 

5.  Nathaniel3  Kyrtland  or  Kertland  {Philip,-  John'?x),  born  in  1616. 

He  was  an  infant  (or  perhaps  unborn)  at  the  date  of  his  uncle  John's 
will.  Came  over  with  his  brother  Philip3  on  the  Hopewell  and  settled 
in  Lynn.  Not  named  in  the  division  of  land  in  Lynn,  1633;  in  that 
year  was  defendant  in  law  suit  brought  by  Isaack  Disberowe  (Re- 
gister, 1887,  page  36  L).  Went  to  Long  Island  with  his  brother 
Philip,  and,  Savage  says,  staid  there  some  years,  marrying  Parnell 

and  settling  in   Southold,  L.  I.      Returned  to  Lynn   before 

1658,  was  selectman  there  1678,  and  died  there  in  1686  {Lewis  fy 
Newhall).     Savage  gives  the  following  children  : 

6.  i.        Nathaniel,4  born  at  Southold,  L.  I. 

ii.  Philip4  (perhaps  a  sou  of  Philip3),  probably  born  on  Long  Island. 
Married  Ruth  Pierce  (Query:  daughter  of  Capt.  Michael  Pierce?) 
October  14,  1677.  Was  a  soldier  in  Kin?  Philip's  war,  at  Hadley, 
credited  from  Lynn,  April  6,  1676  (Register,  1887,  page  79).  In 
1685  with  other  Lynn  ex-soldiers,  petitioned  for  a  tract  of  land  in 
the  Nipmugg  Country,  on  account  of  services  in  the  late  wars. 

iii.      Ann4,  born  in  Lyun  April  16,  1658. 

7.  iv.      John4,  born  in  Lynn,  August,  1659. 

v.        Hannah4,  born  in  Lynn,  April  15,  1602. 

vi.  Elizabeth4,  born  in  Lynn,  March  20,  166-1,  married  William5  Pratt 
of  Saybrook,  son  of  Lieut.  William  Pratt. 

viii.     MaSha4,  } twinS'  b0rn  iQ  LynD'  May  15'  16G7' 

6.  Nathaniel*  Kertland  or  Kyrtland  {Na/haniel,3  Philip,"  John?1). 

Fined  at  Lynn  in  1667,  with  two  others  for  "  Prophaining  ye  Lord's 
Day  by  going  to  William  Crafts'  house  and  drinkeing  of  his  Sider  and 
Rosteing  of  his  aples  without  his  or  his  wife's  consent"  {Lewis  4" 
New/toll).  Was  a  soldier  in  King  Philip's  W'ar,  credited  to  Capt. 
VOL.    xlviii.  7 


70  The  Kirtland  or  Kirkland  Family.  [Jan. 

Manning  in  1G7G  (Register,  1888,  page  95).  Married  Mary 
Rand  (probably  daughter  of  Robert  of  Lynn),  who  survived  him,  and 
in  1G90  married  Dr.  John  Henry  Burcbsted  of  Lynn  (Lewis  $"  New- 
hall).     Children  were: 

1.  Nathaniel8  born  May  3, 1677. 

ii.  Mary8,  born  Feb'y  1,"  1680. 

Hi.  Piuscilla*,  born  April  9,  1683. 

Iv.  Elizabeth*,  born  June  22,  1CS5. 

7.  Lieut.  John4  Kertland  or  Kirtland  (Nathaniel.0  Philip'  JohnV), 
adopted  in  minority  by  his  aunt  Susanna3  (Kertland)  Wastall.  Mr. 
Chapman  in  his  Pratt  Genealogy  quotes  Saybrook  Records,  Vol.  1, 
page  78,  year  1672: 

"  This  agreement,  between  Mr.  John  Wastall  of  Saybrook  and  Mr.  Natha- 
niel Cortland  (sic)  of  Linne  in  Mattachewsetts.  .  .  Ye  said  Cortland 
doth  resign  up  his  sonne  John  to  ye  disposal  of  ye  said  Wastall  and  his 
■wife  Susanna.  .  .  .  The  said  Wastall  both  promise  that  ye  said  John 
Cortland  shall  succeed  in  ye  estate  of  ye  said  Wastall." 

John  Kertland  married  Nov.  18th,  1G79,  Lydia,  daughter  of  Lieut. 
Wm.  Pratt,  an  early  and  influential  settler  of  Saybrook,  and  upon 
the  death  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  "Wastall  succeeded  to  a  good  estate  left 
by  them.  John  Kirtland  was  somewhat  prominent  in  local  affairs, 
and  was  appointed  Lieutenant  of  the  fort  at  Saybrook  in  1702  and 
again  in  1708.  (Colonial  Records  of  Ct.,  Vols"  4  &  5).  He  died 
January  20,  1716,  having  had  the  following  children  : 

i.  John,*  born  July  11, 1681,  married  1st,  Temperance  Buckingham ;  2d, 
Lydia  Belden. 

ii.       Priscilla,  born  February  1,  16S3,  married  Thos.  Jones. 

iii.      Lydia.  born  October  11,  1685,  married  1st,  Mr.  Griffin;  2d, 

Conklin. 

iv.       Elizabeth,  born  Jan'y  27,  16SS,  married  John  Chapman. 

v.  Nathaniel,  born  Oct.  24,  1600,  married  1st,  Sara  Chapman;  2d, 
Phoebe  De  Wolf. 

vi.      Philip,  born  May  28,  1693. 

vii.     Martha,  born  August  11,  1695,  married  Rev.  H.  Wills. 

viii.    Samuel,  born  Jan'y  19,  1C99,  married  Martha  Whittlesey. 

ix.  Rev.  Daniel,  born  June  17,  1701  (Yale  1720),  ordained  first  pastor 
cf  Newent  church  at  Norwich,  Ct. ,  1721,  married  July  15,  1723, 
Mary  Perkins,  probably  daughter  of  Jabez  Perkins  aud  Hannah 
(Lothrop),  and  had  five  sons  and  seven  daughters,  among  them 
Rev.  Sam'l  Kirkland,  Missionary'  to  the  Oneidas,  and  father  of 
President  John  Thornton  Kirkland  of  Harvard  University. 

x.       Parnell,  born  October  16,  1704,  married  John  Tully. 

Mr.  F.  W.  Chapman's  "Kirtland  Family"  (Register.  Vol.  xiv.), 
to  which  I  have  alluded,  gives  the  family  record  of  John4  Kirtland, 
from  the  point  reached  above,  for  several  generations;  and  so  this 
article  is  merely  intended  to  present  a  record  of  the  first  three 
generations  in  this  country,  and  to  call  attention  to  their  English 
connection. 

The  will  of  John  Kirtland,  which  Mr.  "Waters  discovered  and  printed 
(Register,  Vol.  41,  p.  60)  is  valuable  in  the  proof  it  furnishes  as 
to  the  location  of  the  family  in  England;  and  it  is  to  be  hoped  that 
further  research  will  be  made  to  trace  the  pedigree  of  the  English 
Kirtlands  or  Kirklands. 

Both  Sherrington  and  Newport  Pagnell  are  towns  in  the  northern 
part  of  Buckinghamshire,  within  a  few  miles  of  each  other. 


1894.]  -  The  Snow  Genealogy.  71 


THE  SXOW  GENEALOGY. 

By  Mrs.  Charles  L.  Alben,  of  Troy,  N.  Y. 
[Continued  from  vol.  xlvii.,  page  342.] 

John1  Snow  (Nicholas1),  born  about  1638;  died  1692  in  Eastham. 
He  married  Sept.  19,  1667,  in  Eastham,  Mary  Smaller,  daughter 
of  John  and  Ann  (Walden)  Smalley,  born  in  Barnstable,  ll°Dec. 
1647.  She  and  her  twin  brother  Isaac  were  baptized  in  Barnstable 
Church,  27  Feb.  1648.  She  died  in  1703  in  Eastham.  She  mar- 
ried 2d,  Ephraim  Doane.  We  fin'd  no  will  of  John  Snow.  The 
Inventory  of  the  estate  of  John  Snow  was  made  by  John  Freeman 
and  William  Walker,  April  4,  1 692.  "  He  doubtless  lived  within  the 
present  town  of  Eastham.  The  settlement  of  the  estate  of  John 
Snow,  late  of  Eastham,  deceased,  at  the  County  Court  held  at  Barn- 
stable April  ye  19,  1692,  as  followeth;  after  debts  paid,  one  third 
part  of  his  real  estate,  to  Mary  Snow,  widow,  relict  of  sd  deceased 
during  her  natural  life,  and  one  third  part  of  the  personal  estate  for- 
ever; and  ye  rest  of  sd  personal  estate  for  bringing  up  ye  children 
of  sd  deceased,  saving  her  paying  to  each  of  the  daughters  lour 
pounds  apiece  as  they  come  of  age  or  married ;  &  the  sons  of  the 
said  deceased  to  have  the  lands  &  housing  according  to  law." 
Children,  born  in  Eastham: 

i.        Hannah,3  b.  Axis,.  26,  1670. 
ii.       Mary,  b.  March  10,  1672. 

Abigail,  b.  Oct.  14,  1673. 

Rebecca,  b.  July  23,  1676. 

John,  b.  May  S,"l67S. 

Isaac,  b.<  Aug.  10,  1683. 

Lvdia,  b.  Sept.  29,  1635. 

Elisha,  b.  Jan.  10,  1686. 

Phebe,  b.  June  27,  16S9. 

Elizabeth2  Snow  (Nicholas1),  born  about  1640;  died  June  16,  1678, 
in   Eastham;  married  in  Eastham,  Dec.  13,  1665,  Thomas  Rogers, 
son  of  Lt.  Joseph  Rogers  of  the  Mayflower.     He  was  born  in  1638 
in  Plymouth,  and  died  in  Eastman,  1678. 
Children,  all  born  in  Eastham: 

i.        Elizabeth  Rogers,3  b.  Oct.  8,  1666. 

ii-  Joseph  Rogers,  b.  Feb.  1,  1667;  m.  Prudence?;  settled  in  Eastham, 
and  had  Sarah,  b.  Nov.  20,  1691;  Elizabeth,  b.  Sept.  20,  1693; 
Joseph,  .  .  .  .  "  Deacon  John  Payne  says,  '  Joseph  Rogers  died 
of  a  strange  distemper,  of  which  he  hadlong  laid  sick,  April  the 
29th,  1696.'" 

ib-      Hannah  Rogers,  b.  March  20,  1669. 

iv.      Thomas  Rogers,  b.  March  6,  1670-1 ;  "  died  9  days  old." 

v.  Thomas  Rogers,  b.  May  6,  1672;  m.  Sarah  Treat,  Dec.  10,  1700, 
daughter  of  Rev.  Samuel  Treat.  He  settled  in  Truro,  and  his 
children  were  all  born  and  baptized  there  June  13,  1716.  exceot 
the  last,  baptized  Sept.  22.  1718.  Sarah,  b.  Oct.  27,  1701  ;  Fhcbe, 
b-  Nov.  1,  1703;  Elizabeth,  b.  March  27,  1706;  Lucy,  b.  June  6, 
1708;  Hannah,  b.  April  6,  1710;  Thomas,  b.  Dec.  11,  1712;  Joseph, 


iil. 

iv. 

34. 

v. 

35. 

vi. 

vii. 

36. 

vlii. 

Lx. 

37. 

I. 

S3. 

ii. 

iii. 

39. 

iv. 

v. 

72  f  The  Snow  .Genealogy.  [Jan. 

b.  March  24,  1715;  Huldah,  b.  Aug.  13,  1717.  (For  further  par- 
ticulars iu  regard  to  this  family  see  Treat  Genealogy,  published 
by  John  Harvey  Treat,  of  Lawreuce,  Mass.) 

\i.  Eliezar  Rogers,  b.  Nov.  3,  1673;  settled  in  Plymouth;  m.  Ruha- 
mah,  and  bad  Elisabeth,  169S;  Thomas,  1701  (who  married  Pris- 
cilla  Churchill,  and  had  Ruth  1722,  Priscilla  1723,  Desire  1725, 
Willis  1727,  Samuel  1728,  Thomas  1730,  Hannah  1734,  Eleazur 
1736,  Priscilla  1730,  John  1740);  Hannah,  1703;  Experience,  1707, 
m.  Samuel  Totman;  Eleazur,  1710;  Willis,  1712;  Abijah,  1714; 
Meriah,  1716;  Ruth,  1718. 

(This  family  I  find  in  Davis's  Landmarks  of  Plymouth ). 

rii.  Nathaniel  Rogers',  b.  Jan.  IS,  1675.  Nothing  further  known  of 
him  or  his  sisters. 

9.  Jabez2  Snow  (Nicholas1),  born  about  1642;  died  in  Eastharn,  Dec. 
20,  1690;  married  in  Eastharn,  probably  about  1670,  Elizabeth        ? 

Lieut,  Jabez  Snow  was  in  Capt.  John  Gorliam's  Company  in  the 
Canada  Expedition,  1690.  He  w:ss  a  prominent  man  in  Eastharn. 
He  left  no  will.  The  probate  records  show  he  had  niue  children. 
His  "sis  daughters"  to  have  '"fourteen  pounds  &  four  shillings 
each." 

Children,  born  in  Eastharn: 

Jabez,3  b.  Sept.  6,  1G70. 

Edward,  b.  March  26,  1672. 

Sarah,  b.  Feb.  26.  1673. 

Grace,  b.  Feb.  1,  1674-5. 

Thomas,  b.  April  2,  1677;  d.  April  2,  1697,  in  Eastharn;  never  mar- 
ried. "His  death  is  mentioned  by  his  cousin  John  Paine  in  his 
Diary,  '  About  the  22d  or  23d  of  March,  Thomas  Snow,  our  faith- 
ful &  trusty  apprentice,  was  taken  down,  &  lay  sorely  ill  of  a 
violent  fever,  and  died  on  the  2d  of  April,  1697,  early  in  the  morn- 
ing.'" 

Elizabeth,  probably  \  before 

Deborah,  "         j    1690. 

Rachel,  "        1685. 

10.  Ruth2  Snow  (Nicholas*),  born  about  1644;  died  in  Eastman,  Jan.  17, 
1716-17;  married  Dec.  2,  1666,  in  Eastharn,  John  Cole,  son  of 
Daniel  Cole  and  Mary,  his  wife.  He  was  born  probably  at  Ply- 
mouth or  Duxbury,  1644,  and  died  in  Eastharn,  Jan.  6,  1725-6. 
He  was  a  lieutenant.  He  made  his  will  Oct.  20,  1717;  mentions 
John,  Joseph,  Ruth,  Hepsibah,  Hannah,  Mary  and  Sarah.  He 
settled  in  Eastharn. 

Children,  born  iu  Eastharn- 

i.  Ruth  Cole,3  b.  March  11,  1667-S;  m.  March  21,  1688-9,  in  Eastharn, 
Wm  Twining,  son  of  W™  and  Elizabeth  (Deane)  Twining,  and  had 
Elizabeth,  1690;  Thankful,  1697;  Ruth,  1699;  Hannah,  1702; 
William,  1704;  Barnabas,  1705;  Mercy,  1708. 

ii.  Lt.  John  Cole,  b.  March  6,  1669;  d.  Dec.  13,  1746;  m.  about  1693, 
Mercy  or  Mary  Mayo.  (Mr.  Jqsiah  Paine  says  she  was  a  widow.) 
She  d.  Feb.  17,  1731,  and  they  had  Jonathan,  b.  Oct.  4,  1694; 
John,  Oct.  14,  1696;  Mary,  Aug.  25,  169S :  Jarws,  Oct.  23,  1700; 
Nathan,  Jan.  21,  1702-3:  Joshua,  March  20,  1704-5;  Moses,  July 
22,  1707;  Phe.be,  Oct.  29,  1709-10;  Thankjul,  Oct.  20,  1712;  Joseph, 
Oct.  13,  1714;    Thankful,  Oct.  19,  1716. 

iii.      Hepsibah  Cole,  b.  June      ,  1672. 

iv.      Hannah  Cole,  b.  March  27,  1675. 

V.  Joseph  Cole,  b.  June  11,  1677:  m.  Feb.  4,  1701-2,  Elizabeth  Cobb, 
daughter  of  James  Cobb.  She  d.  March  16,  1714.  They  had  : 
Gershom,  b.  March  1,  1702-3;  Ruth,  March  11,  1704-5;  Patience, 


40. 

vi. 

41. 

vii. 

42. 

viii. 

1894.1  Notes  and  Queries.  73 

Dec.  8,  170G;  Eliz..  Teb.  10,  1708-9;  Sarah,  March  8,   1710-11; 
Reliance,  Aug.  2,  1713,  d.  Aug.  23,  1729. 

11.  Hannah3  Snow  (Nicholas1),  born  probably  in  Eastham  about  1G4G; 

"  married  in  16S3,  Giles  Rickard,  son  of  Giles  and  Hannah  (Dunham) 
Rickard,  and  appears  by  his  will  to  have  only  had  an  adopted  child. 
Desire  Doten."  Davis  says  Hannah  was  probably  daughter  of  Nich- 
olas Snow;  but,  if  so,  it  seems  strange  that  he  did  not  provide  for 
her  or  her  sister,  Rebecca,  in  his  will,  as  they  were  unmarried. 
There  are  some  slight  indications  of  a  second  Nicholas2  Snow 
(Nicholas1),  who  may  have  died  before  his  father;  and  these  might 
have  been  his  daughters.  But  if  this  is  so,  it  seems  strange  they  or 
he  were  not  referred  to  in  Nicholas1  Snow's  will. 

12.  Rebecca2  Snow   (Nicholas1)    probably    born   in    Eastham  in   1648; 

married  Samuel  Rickard  of  Ply  rup  ton,  son  of  the  "  2d  Giles,"  in 
1G89,  and  had: 

i.  Rebecca,3  b.  1091. 

ii.  Hannah,  b.  1693. 

iii.  Samuel,  b. 

i\\  Bkthiaii,  b.  1698. 

v.  Henry,  b.  1700. 

vi.  Mary,  b.  1702. 

vii.  Ei.kanah,  b.  1704;  m.  Keturah  Bishop. 

via.  Mehitabel,  b.  1707. 

ii.  Eleazcr,  b.  1709. 

[To  be  continued.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 
Notes. 

Christmas  at  THE  Isles  of  Shoaxs. — From  the  records  of  the  Church  of  Gos- 
port  [Isles  of  Shoals]  :— 

At  a  Chh  meetg.  at  ye  Pastors  House.  Jan'y  3d  1746-7. 

5.  The  Chh  by  a  Vote  Agree  y'  ye  next  Lecture  Day  be  Turned  into  a  Day  of 
Fasting  &  Prayer  on  ye  acct  of  ye  Deadness  of  Eeligion,  &  ye  abounding  of  Sin 
among  us. 

6.  The  Chh  by  a  Vote,  Say  yl  y?  are  Willingy*  Elinor  Crocket  &  Sarah  Randel 
should  come  to  ye  Sacrameut  to  morrow,  ye  Pastor  having  Informed  ym  yl  these 
^  omen  Declared  to  Him  y'  yr  was  no  Rioting,  nor  Revelling  at  either  of  yr 
Houses,  on  ye  25th  of  ye  last  month. 

7.  With  respect  unto  a  Rumour  of  yr  being  Bad  Carrvines  on  at  Charels 
Kand.-ls  ye  2offi  of  y<=  last  month,  ye  Chh  by  a  Vote  Chose  Mr  Gibbons  Mace 
Joseph  Mace  Junr  &  Sam1  Muchamore,  to  Go  unto  his  Wife  Rebecca  &  acquaint 
her  y1  y<  Chh  Expect,  either  y<  She  appear  immeadiately  at  ye  Cb>  Meetg.  &  give 
an  Acct.  about  ye  sd  Rumour,  or  y'  she  send  ym  an  Ace'. 

8.  Rebecca  Randel  appeared  in  ye  Chh  meetg.  &  Declared,  y*  it  was  against 
her  mind  yt  yr  wag  ^-^g  0f  Guns  at  ye  Time  above,  but  she  coud  not  Help  it. 
She  was  sorry  for  y«  Carryings  on  among  us.  As  to  ye  Observing  of  ye  Day, 
*he  said  she  had  been  us'ed  to  it.  &  her  husband  woud  Commit  a  great  Deal  of 
Sin.  if  she  did  not  on  yl  Day  dress  Victuals.  &  yl  she  cou'd  not  do  as  she  woud 
do :  wmpon  y  C^  by  a  Vote,  said  y?  were  Satisfied  wth  her  Acc{  of  ve  matter, 
if  it  was  as  She  had  now  Related  it.  Yraxk  W.  Haceett. 

A  etc;  Castle,  A".  II. 

VOL.  XL  Yin.  7* 


74  ""  JSTotes  and  Queries.  [Jan. 

Hibbins  and  Bellingham. — Mrs.  Ann  Hibbins,  "whose  will  is  printed  in  the 
Register,  vi.,  283,  was  the  widow  of  William  Hibbins,  a  merchant  of  Boston. 
As  is  well  known  she  was  executed  for  witchcraft  in  June,  1656.  Previous  to 
her  marriage  to  Mr.  Hibbins  she  had  a  husband  by  the  name  of  Moore,  and  her 
sons  John,Joseph  and  Jonathan  are  named  in  her  will.  It  has  been  often  stated 
that  she  was  a  sister  of  Governor  Richard  Bellingham. 

Capt.  Charles  Herv.ey  Townshend,  of  New  Haven,  Ct.,  has  sent  us  some 
entries  from  the  Bostou,  Lincolnshire  register,  which  he  copied  some  years 
ago  from  Col.  Joseph  L.  Chester's  transcript.  From  them  we  infer  that  it  was 
Mr.  Hibbins's  first  wife  (Hester)  and  not  his  last  wife  (Ann)  who  was  a  sister 
of  Gov.  Bellingham.     The  entries  are  : 

"  William  Hibbin  and  Hester  Bellingham  married  March  4th,  1632-3." 

"  Child  of  Mr.  Richard  Bellingham  Recorder  bur.  April  7,  1626." 

Another  child  Mar.  27,  1623. 


Andre's  Execution". — It  is  a  singular  fact  that  a  man  is  now  living  whose 
father  saw  Andre  hung.  That  father  was  Jesse  Davenport,  of  Canton,  born 
1761,  died  1830,  a  neighbor  of  my  young  days.  The  son  is  Samuel  Davenport, 
now  of  Neponset,  and  possibly  his  brother  Lemuel,  of  Maiden,  is  also  living. 
That  father's  children  by  his  first  wife  are  all  dead,  of  whom  Jesse,  jr.,  died 
about  three  years  ago,  aged  about  90.  But  that  father  married,  2d,  181"),  and 
the  sous  born  in  1817-19  show  the  great  length  of  two  generations.  The  older 
Jesse  kept  a  journal,  and  I  have  a  copy  of  it  from  1794  to  1817.  Perhaps  the 
older  part  is  in  existence.  Andre  stood  in  a  cart,  which  was  started  away  to 
make  his  suspension.  That  journal  stated  that  he  went  to  Boston  to  attend 
Gov.  Bowdoin's  funeral.  John  Spake,  M.D. 

New  Bedford,  ATass. 


Queries. 

Sherman,  Soule,  Bennet  and  Braley.—  Edmund  Sherman,*  or  Shearman, 
born  1641,  died    1719,  in   Portsmouth,   R.  I.,   son   of  Hon.   Philip*   Sherman, 

(Samuel,3  Henry,2  Henry1)  married  before  May  7,  1674.     Dorcas .     Who 

was  she?  According  to  Austin's  Genealogical  Dictionary  she  was  mother  of  all 
his  children.  I  would  like  her  parents,  and  date  of  birth  and  death.  Their 
son,  David  Shearman,  born  Jan.  1,  1680,  married  Abigail  Hathaway  in  Taunton 
Dec.  27,  1710;  he  of  Dartmouth,  she  of  Freetown.  (See  N.  E.  Hist,  and  Gen. 
Register,  Vol.  xiii.,  page  254.)  Who  were  her  parents  and  grandparents? 
Edmund  Shearman  was  of  Portsmouth  first;  afterwards,  Nov.  13,  1694,  of 
Dartmouth,  "one  of  those  who  received  a  confirmatory  deed  of  Dartmouth" 
from  Bradford,  and  in  list  of  proprietors  printed  in  the  Register  is  the  one 

printed Sherman.     John  Sherman  was  his  brother.     On  these  old  records 

the  name  is  generally  Shearman. 

George  Soule,*  of  the  Mayfioirer,  had  two  sons,  George2  and  Nathaniel2  Soule, 
who  received  their  father's  Dartmouth  lauds,  and  were  amongst  the  first  pro- 
prietors.    George'- Soule  married  Deborah .     Who  was  she?  and  was  she 

the  mother  of  his  son  William?  George  Soule  made  his  will  March  1,  1697; 
entered  July  1,  1704;  speaks  of  sons  William,  John,  Nathan;  daughters  De- 
borah, Mary  Davoll,  Sarah.  His  wife  Deborah  in  her  will  speaks  of  William, 
Nathan,  Mary  dan.  of  George  Soule,  daughters  Sarah,  Mary  Davoll.  and  Lydia 
Browned.     "Dated  4  Jan.  1708-9."     I  would  like  all  particulars  in  regard  to 

Deborah.     The  oldest  son,  William,  married  a  Hannah .     Was  she  the 

mother  of  all  his  chddren.  especially  the  oldest  son,  William?  and  who  was  she? 
and  who  were  her  parents? 

All  these  were  of  Dartmouth.  Their  son,  William,  had  a  wife,  Rachel,  and  lived 
in  Dartmouth  the  early  part  of  his  life,  and  then  removed  to  Tiverton.  Who 
was  she  and  her  parents?  Was  she  the  mother  of  Thankful  Soule,  who  was 
born  the  9th  day  of  February,  in  the  year  1718-19,  William's  oldest  child?  She 
married  in  Dartmouth  John  Bennett  Jan.  24.  1739-40. 

Robert  Bennett  is  found  in  Newport,  1655-1669,  with  wife  Rebecca  and  child- 
ren—Joseph, born  1644;  Robert,  born  1650;  John,  born  1652;  and  Jonathan, 


]894.]  Notes  and  Queries.  75 

1059.     I  would  like  the  parenage  of  both  Robert  and  Rebecca  ( )  Bennett, 

and  anv  further  particulars  in  regard  to  this  family,  aside  from  what  Austin's 
Genealogical  Dictionary  gives.  ""Robert2  Bennett  removed  to  Portsmouth,  and 
hud  two  wives,  Anne  Corey  and  Joanna.  Who  was  she?  His  son,  Robert' 
Bennett,  removed  to  Tiverton,  married  Almey.  Who  was  she?  Was  she  the 
mother  of  all  his  children,  especially  John?  In  his  will  dated  6  Oct.,  1746,  he 
speaks  of  sou  John,  son  Robert,  son  William,  son  Jeremiah — all  of  Dartmouth; 
daughter  Sarah,  wife  of  Thomas  Gray;  daughter  Mary,  wife  of  Joseph  Cook; 
daughter  Anne,  wife  of  Job  Cooke.  Who  was  James  Bennett?  who  was  oue  of 
the  first  organizers  of  "  Church  of  Christ"  at  Little  Compton,  R.  I.,  1704?  He 
had  married  Ruth4  Rogers,  daughter  of  John  Rogers,  and  ELizabeth3  (Pabodie) 
Rogers  (Elizabeth2  (Alden)  Rabodie,  John1  Alden).  In  a  deed,  1696,  he  speaks 
of  himself  as  of  Roxbury.  I  would  like  his  parentage.  Did  Ruth  have  any 
children? 

Jloger1  Braley,  or  Brayley,  or  Bralee,  by  wife  Alice,  had  in  Portsmouth,  R.  I. 
(see  Arnold's  Vital  Record,  vol.  iv.,  page  58)  Elizabeth  Brayley,  born  June  25, 
1G97;  Roger,2  born  November  15,  1698;  Alice,  born  March  28.  1700;  Ambrose, 
bom  Dec"  4,  1701;  John,  born  March  26,  1703;  Grace,  born  Feb.  22,  1704-5; 
Sarah,  born  March  25,  1707.  Ambrose  went  to  Middleboro,  married  Mary 
Renolds,  and  had  a  family  there.  Johu  went  to  Freetown,  and  he  or  his  son 
John  in  Revolutionary  war  killed.  Roger2  went  to  Middleborough,  married 
Hannah  (who  was  she?)  and  had  Alice,  born  July  29,  1722;  Roger,  born  April  6, 
1724.  He  then  married  Margaret  Shearman,  born  1711,  daughter  of  David  and 
Abigail  (Hathaway)  Shearman,  of  Dartmouth,  and  had  Abigail,  born  April  1, 
1734;  David,  born"  Sept.  1,  1735;  Russell,  March  17,  1737;  Solomon,  born  Nov. 
19,  1738.  He  then  removed  to  Rochester,  and  had  Lydia,  born  July  29,  1740; 
Israel,  born  May  15,  1742;  Elijah,  born  March  5,  1744;  Hannah,  born  Feb.  2, 
1746,  married  Barnabas  Hammett,  of  Long  Plain,  Mass.  ;  Caleb,  born  Dec.  16, 
1747;  Ezekiel,  born  Dec.  6,  1749;  Margaret,  born  Aug.  18,  1752;  George,  born 
Dec.  3,  1754..  Any  further  particulars  in  regard  to  this  family  I  would  like,  but 
particularly  the  parentage  of  first  Roger  Braley  and  Alice  his  wife. 

Address:  Mrs.  Charles  L.  Alden. 

4  Gale  Place,  Troy,  JV.  Y. 


Ingersoll,  Low,  Gannett  and  Wadleigh. —David  Ingersoll,  of  Gloucester, 
married  Mary  Sargent  Dec.  10,  1718.  Want  the  Christian  name  of  her  father 
and  the  maiden  name  of  her  mother.  Samuel  and  Mary  (Norwood)  Sirgent 
had  a  daughter,  Mary,  born  Nov.  1,  1696,  and  John  and  Hannah  (Howard)  Sar- 
gent had  a  Mary,  born  Dec.  10,  1699.  Did  either  of  these  Marys  marry  David 
Ingersoll? 

Nathaniel  Low  married  Abigail  Riggs,  of  Gloucester,  July  15,  1722.  Want 
the  Christian  name  of  the  father  and  "the  maiden  name  of  the  mother  of  this 
Nathaniel  Low.  Was  he  a  son  of  John  and  Anna  Low  and  grandson  of  John 
and  Sarah  (Thorndike)  Low?  Did  he  have  a  brother,  John  Low,  born  Feb.  22, 
1691,  who  married  Anna  Annable,  April  18,  1718? 

Matthew  Gannett,  born  in  Scituate,  1688,  married  Mary  Bacon  in  1718.  Their 
children : 

1.  Elizabeth,  born  1719,  married  Nicholas  Byram;  married,  2d,  Thomas 
Hay  ward,  June  4,  1746. 

2.  Mary,  born  August  4,  1721,  married  John  Edson,  Feb.  7,  1743. 

3.  Susannah,  born  Nov.  13,  1723,  married  Daniel  Edson,  Jan.  1,  1746. 

4.  Mehitable,  born   April  14,  1724,  married  Zebulon  Cary,  Oct.  8,  1747. 

5.  Sarah,  born  July  31,  1729,  married  David  Pettingill.  He  died  April  i, 
1755. 

She  married,  2d,  Amos  Ford,  May  29,  1766.  Want  the  Christian  name  of  the 
father  and  the  maiden  name  of  the  mother  of  this  Mary  Bacon.  George  and 
Mary  Bacon,  of  Roxburv,  had  a  daughter,  Marv,  born  August  13,  1701.  Jona- 
than and  Elizabeth  (Giles)  Bacon  had  a  daughter,  Mary,  born  Sept.  18,  1702. 
Josiah  Bacon  (son  of  Michael3  Bacon)  and  Marv,  his  wife  had  a  daughter, 
Mary,  born  Oct.  20,  1703.  Did  either  of  these  Mary  Bacons  marry  Matthew 
Gannett? 

Jonathan  Wadleigh,  of  Exeter,  N.  IL,  had  a  daughter,  Hannah,  who  married 
Joseph  Noyes,  of  Newbury,  1715.  He  married  for  a  second  wife  Mrs.  Ann 
(Wilson)  Hilton,  widow  of  Winthrop  Hilton.     Want  the  maiden  name  of  this 


76  JSTotes  and  Queries.  [Jan. 

Jonathan  Wadleigh's  first  wife,  and  the  names  of  her  parents  and  where  they 
lived.  Warren  Ladd. 

677  County  St.,  New  Bedford.  Mass. 


Medical  Graduates  of  Bowdoin  College.  —  Information  respecting  the 
following  early  graduates  of  the  Medical  Schoolof  Maine  is  much  desired  for 
use  in  the  General  Catalogue  : 

1822.  Green  Berry  Bowles,  of  Bedford  County,  Va. ;  AsaQuimby,  of  Albion, 
Maine. 

1823.  John  P.  Haynes,  of  Bedford  County,  Va. ;  Eber  West,  of  Tolland 
Conn. 

1824.  Clark  Lillybridge,  of  Stafford,  Conn.,  and  of  South  Carolina. 
1823.     Martin  M.  H.  Markoe,  of  St.  Croix,  W.  I. 

1S26.     John  Adams,  of  Bloomtield,  Me. ;  Benjamin  Ayer,  of  Alua,  Me. 

1828.  Henry  Gilmour,  of  Stafford,  Conn. 

1829.  Jacob  Blaisdell,  of  Fort  Covington,  N.  Y. ;  John  Plant,  of  Benson,  Vt. 

1830.  Octave  C.  Fortier,  of  Quebec/P.  Q. 
1832.  ■  Porter  K.  Lovell,  of  San  Domingo. 

Brunswick,  Me.  Geo.  T.  Little. 


Smith.— A  fraament  of  an  old  family  record. — Cather  Smith  Died  July  the 
fifth  day  1759  in  the  fifty-ninth  year  of  his  age. 

Lemuell  Smith  Died  August  the  sixth  day  1759  aged  one  year  and  seven 
months  one  Day. 

Phylip  Smith  Died  Nov.  ye  21  day  in  1659  aired  thirty  years  and  three  months 
and  27  Days. 

Aaroi  Smith  Ju,  was  in  a  Battel  in  1758  march  and  has  been  missing  Ever 
Since  aj?ed  25  years  and  Eleven  months  when  mising. 

Dr.  Nathane'l  Smith  Died  March  9th  1774  aged  72. 

Jemima  Whiten  Died  February  14  1774. 

Note. — The  first  entry  in  above  record  refers  to  Aaron,  son  of  Ichabod  Smith 
of  Hadley;  the  next  three  are  his  children.  Aaron  jr.  was  one  of  Roger's 
Rangers,  and  was  captured  near  Ticonderoga,  March  13,  1758.  Nathaniel  was 
brother  of  Aaron,  and  first  physician  of  Amherst.  The  date  of  his  death  is,  by 
mistake,  given  in  Judd's  Hadley  as  1789.  Franklin  Leonard  Pope. 

Elizabeth,  N.  J. 


Patxe. — The  undersigned,  who  is  preparing  a  work  entitled  "  The  Signers  of 
the  Declaration  of  Independence,  their  Ancestors  and  Descendants,"  is  very 
anxious  to  obtain  any  one  or  more  of  the  following  data  : 

1.  Date  of  marriage  of  Robert  Treat  Paine,  the  "  Signer,"  to  Sally  Cobb  — 
the  year  was  probably  17G9,  not  1770,  as  various  authorities  give  it,  as  their 
eldest  child  was  born  May  14,  1770. 

2.  Dates  of  birth  and  death  of  Mai*y  Ann  Smith  Paine,  daughter  of  the 
"  Signer's"  son,  Robert  Treat — originally  called  Thomas — Paine.  (She  is  said 
to  have  died  in  Boston  in  November.  1S02,  aged  three  years  and  eight  months.) 

3.  Date  of  birth  of  Robert  Treat  Painereldest  son  of  Robert  Treat — for- 
merly Thomas — Paine,  son  of  the  "  Signer.'"  (Said  to  have  died  in  Boston 
November  12,  1802,  "  aged  one  year  and  two  months.") 

4.  Date  of  marriatre  of  Robert  Treat  Paine,  the  Astronomer — who  died  June 
3,  1885 — to  Anne  W.  Stevens.  (This  Robert  Treat  Paine  was  the  second  son 
of  Robert  Treat — formerly  Thomas — Paine,  above-named). 

5.  Dates  and  places  of  birth  and  death  of  Eliza  or  Elizabeth  Baker,  whom 
the  said  Robert  Treat— formerly  Thomas — Paine  married  February  22,  1795. 

6.  Names  of  her  parents. 

7.  Date  of  birth  of  Olive  Lyman,  who  married  Henry  Paine,  youngest  son  of 
the  "Signer."    (She  was  a  daughter  of  Theodore  and  Sarah— Emerson— Lvman). 

8.  Dates  and  places  of  birth  and  death  of  Lucy  Lyman  Paine,  daughter  of 
said  Henry  and  Olive  (Lyman)  Paine,  who  became  the  first  wife  of  Russell 
Sturgis.  Frank  Willing  Leach. 

254  South  23d  Street,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 


1S04.]  .  Notes  and  Queries.  77 

WlLMAafs,  Longbottom  and  Oi.ds.  —  Williams.  —  In  Norwich,  Conn.,  are 
recorded  children  of  Joseph  and  Mary  Williams  as  follows:  Moses,  1724; 
Dorothy,  1726;  Joseph,  1729;  Elijah,  1730;  PriseiUa,  1732;  Sarah,  1734; 
Mar?,  1730;  Anne,  1739;  Sibol  (sic)  1741;  Asa,  1744;  Hannah,  1746.  "  En- 
tered Sept.  25,  1750,  at  desire  of  Joseph  Williams."  I  would  be  glad  of  any 
information  respecting  the  antecedents  of  this  Joseph  Williams,  whose  children 
•were  apparently  born  in  some  other  town. 

Ijtughtdtom. — From  whence  came  Daniel  Longbottom,  who  married  Nov.  12, 
1723,  Mary  Caswell,  and  whose  children  in  Norwich,  Conn.,  record  are:  Elijah, 
1721;   Elizabeth,  172(3;  Judith,  1720;  Lydia,  1734;  Anne,  1736;  Daniel.  1740. 

/;,,',-,.. f;.—josiah  Barrett,  born  1G83,  married  1710,  Mary  Dill,  of  Concord,  re- 
married to  Littleton.  In  1737  was  one  of  first  settiers  of  Hardwick.  east  of 
Ware  river,  afterwards  New  Braintree,  where  he  was  living  in  1749,  and  per- 
haps removed  so  Sunderland.  Would  like  to  know  in  what  town  he  was  living 
from  1720  to  1737. 

0/,\s. — Joseph  Pease,  of  Somers,  or  Enfield,  Conn.,  born  1712;  died  1800; 
married  Prudence  Olds.     Who  were  her  parents? 

Elizdbethi  N.  J.  Franklin  Leonard  Pope. 


John  Head.— In  the  account  of  the  eminent  lawyer,  John  Read,  in  Apple- 
ton's  Cyclopaedia  of  American  Biogragraphy,  it  is  stated  that  he  was  born  in 
Meiidon,  Mass.,  but  Todd's  History  of  Redding,  Conn.,  states  that  he  was  born 
in  Connecticut,  without  naming  the  place,  and  the  assertion  is  borne  out  by 
Read's  own  statement  in  a  letter  to  Francis  Wilks.  the  Colonial  Agent,  in  1739, 
that  Connecticut  "  is  my  native  Country."  The  history  of  the  Read-Reed-Reede 
Families  says  that  John  was  a  son  of'Sarnuel  Read,  of  Mendon,  born  in  1673. 
That  would"  make  him  rather  old  for  those  clays  at  the  time  of  his  graduation  in 
1<;;>7.  There  was  a  John  Read  born  in  Norwich,  August  15,  1679,  son  of  Josiah, 
but  he  apparently  lived  and  died  an  undistinguished  life  in  Norwich.  Can  any 
one  inform  me  where  Read  was  born,  and  when? 

SI 5  Asylum  Avenue,  Hartford,  Conn.  Miss  Mary  K.  Taixott. 


Settlement  of  the  Welsh  Tract. — Can  any  of  the  subscribers,  or  others, 
give  any  account  of  the  early  settlement  of  the  "Welsh  Tract,"  a  grant  of 
30,000  acres  Irom  Wm.  Penn,  about  1701,  to  a  party  of  emigrants  from  Wales? 
—said  land  being  close  by  Newark,  Del.  By  what  ship  and  at  what  date  did  they 
come?  Was  there  a  man  named  John  Welsh,  and  Frances  his  wife,  among 
them?     From  what  port  did  they  sail? 

I  have  worked  for  a  long  time  to  get  on  the  track  of  this  John  Welsh  and 
Frances  his  wife,  and  my  experience~often  is,  that  the  locality  where  informa- 
tion is  naturally  expected  is  not  so  fruitful  as  a  distant  place. 

Frank  Olcott  Allen. 

Chesnut  Hill,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 


Phillips  and  Prtjden.— Phillips.— Rev.  George  Phillips,  who  came  to  America 
with  Gov.  Winthrop  and  settled  at  Watertown,  Mass.,  had  a  son,  Zerubabel, 
who  settled  on  Long  Island  (Southampton?).  Whom  did  he  marry,  and  who 
Were  his  children? 

Prudden.— Rev.  John  Prudden  (Harvard  1663)  son  of  Rev.  Peter  Prudden,  of 
Milford,  Conn.,  became  the  minister  at  Jamaica,  L.I.,  1670,  and  Newark,  N.  J., 
1674.  Whom  did  he  marry,  and  where  was  she  born  and  when  deceased?  I 
will  be  grateful  for  a  reply.  Mrs.  Ethan  Allen  Weaver. 

West  Philadelphia,  Penn. 


Coffin.— The  Register  for  1870  contained  a  short  genealogy  of  the  Coffin 
family,  which  is  sadlv  deficient  in  the  matter  of  places.  I  wish  to  learn  the  place 
of  birth  of  the  children  of  37,  Abner  Coffin,  p.  311.  He  was  at  various  dates 
called  "of  Exeter,"  but  in  what  part  he  lived  does  not  appear.  Can  any  one 
tell  me  on  what  records  the  births  of  his  children  can  be  found?  And  whence 
did  Mr.  Silvauus  J.  Macy  obtain  the  dates  as  printed  in  the  Register? 

Wm.  S.  Appleton. 


78  Notes  and  Queries.  [Jan. 

Spexcer.— Eliphaz  Spencer,  born  April  27,  1733,  in  Suffield,  Conn. ;  son  of 
William  and  Hannah  (Copeley)  Spencer.  (See  Goodwin's  notes,  p.  316.)  Did 
Eliphaz  Spencer  marry,  and"  if  so,  who?  What  children  did  he  have?  He 
probablv  removed  with  his  father  to  Sheffield,  Mass. 

IIS  fork  St.,  Xew  Haven,  Ct.  Geo.  D.  Seymour. 


Day,  Dicklxsox  axd  Kellogg. — Robert  Day  came  in  Elizabeth  from  Ipswich, 
County  Suffolk,  to  Boston,  in  April.  1634,  aged  30,  wife  Mary  aged  28. 

Nathaniel  Dickinson  was  at  Wethersfield,  1637'. 

Samuel  Kellogg  was  in  Hadley  as  early  as  1G69;  married  1st,  1664,  Sarah, 
widow  of  Nathaniel  Gunn  of  Hartford. 

Information  concerning  ancestry  of  above  will  be  paid  for. 

Lafayette,  Indiana.  J.  H.  Perrix. 

Kellogg,  Miller  axd  Dewey.— Joseph  Kellogg,  born  Hatfield,  Mass.,  June 
18,  1696;  married  Oct.  23,  1717,  Colchester,  Conn.,  Abigail  Miller. 

Daniel  Kellogg,  born  Colchester,  Conn.,  May  6,  1720;  married  May  27.  1745, 
Ann  Dewey,  of  Hebron,  Conn. 

Information  concerning  ancestry  of  Abigail  Miller  or  Ann  Dewey  will  be  paid 
for.  J-  H.  Perrix. 

Lafayette,  Ind. 

Cook. — Will  all  persons  who  have  facts  pertaining  to  the  genealogy  of  the 
descendants  of  Richard,'  George  and  John  Cook  please  communicate  same  to 
W.  Burt  Cook,  Jr.,  Ithaca,  N.  Y.  Richard,  George  and  John  Cook  are  known 
to  have  crossed  to  America,  circ.  1634  from  Gloucestershire  (?),  England,  and 
to  have  settled,  Richard  in  Cambridge,  George  in  Boston,  and  John  in  Salem. 


Replies. 

Soldiers  rx  Philip's  War:  Elias  Stiff.—  In  the  Register,  xli.,  p.  209, 
amongst  the  soldiers  credited  under  Capt.  William  Turner,  June  24,  1678,  oc- 
curs : 

Elias  Stiff       02.        04.        06. 

The  name  of  Stiff  is  a  very  rare  one  both  in  England  and  America,  and  I  was 
not  previously  aware  of  its  occurrence  in  Massachusetts,  though  cognizant  of  the 
fact  that  there  are  several  families  of  the  name  in  Virginia.  As  to  the  latter 
the  guess  may  be  hazarded  that  they  came  from  Gloucestershire,  though  at 
present  the  only  reason  for  the  suggestion  is  that  the  very  distinctive  name  of 
Jacob  Stiff  occurs  both  in  Virginia  and  Gloucestershire.  By  a  parity  of  rea- 
soning we  may  suggest  that  Elias  Stiff  came  from  Berkshire.  In  that  county, 
at  least  as  early  as  the  middle  of  the  sixteenth  century,  there  were  several 
settlements  of  the  name,  one  of  them  being  at  Lamborne.  I  have  several  of 
their  wills,  and  all  the  entries  of  the  Stiffs  in  Lamborne  parish  register  down 
to  1766,  and  I  find  the  name  of  Elias  Stiff  occurring  pretty  frequently  from 
1631  to  1762. 

Thomas  Stiff,  of  Lambourne,  weaver,  mentions  in  his  will,  1643,  three  sons, 
Elias,  Thomas  and  Francis.     Elias  Stiff  would  appear  then  to  have  been  s.  p. 

On  August  1,  1631,  one  Elias  Stiff  (query  the  son  of  Thomas,  1643)  married 
Susan  Bother  (querv  Bocoer). 

On  April  14. 1647," was  baptized  "  Elias  the  sonne  of  Francis  and  Margaret  Stiff 
of  Lambourne." 

On  Sept.  24,  1670,  we  find  the  burial  of  Susanna  the  wife  of  Elias  Steefe,  and 
on  Dec.  13,  1685,  was  buried  Ellis  Stiffe  of  Lambourne. 

Whether  any  one  of  these  may  be  identified  with  the  Massachusetts  soldier  it 
is  impossible  at  present  to  sav.     But  these  entries  may  afford  a  clue. 

It  may  be  well  to  add  that  I  have  a  very  large  number  of  references  to  Stiff 
in  other  parts  of  England,  Gloucestershire,  Xorthants,  Hampshire  and  Suffolk, 
the  Christian  name  of  Elias  only  occurs  in  Berkshire. 

Is  anvthinsr  more  known  of  "this  Elias  Stiff,  or  of  others  of  his  surname  in 
Massachusetts?  W.  P.  W.  Puilllmore. 

124  Chauncy  Lane,  London. 


1894.1  JVotes  and  Queries.  79 

Rolve  (ante,  vol.  31,  page  143). — The  Register  for  July,  1877,  says  of 
Enoch  Carter  Rolfe,  M.D.,  that  he  was  descendant  of  Henry1  Rolfe  of  Newbury 
who  died  March  1,  1643,  through  John,2  Benjamin,3  Benjamin4  and  Henry*  who 
removed  to  Concord,  New  Hampshire.  Nathaniel,  born  in  Newbury,  1712,  died 
ot  Concord.  N.  H.,  1808.  Benjamin,7  born  in  Haverhill,  Mass.,  May  31,  1758, 
died  in  Rumford.  Me.,  Oct.  1,  1828,  and  John,8  his  father,  who  was  born  in  Con- 
cord March  7,  1785,  and  died  in  Rumford,  Me.,  April  23,  1854,  &c.  I  judse  you 
have  been  misled  by  the  genealogy  given  in  the  third  (3d)  volume  of  the  Regis- 
ter, which  makes  "Honour  the  wife  of  Henry  his  father,  confounds  his  sou  and 
brother,  and  makes  other  mistakes. 

I  think  the  following  more  probably  his  descent:  Henry1  and  Honour  Rolfe 
of  Newbury,  Benjamin2  born  1638  and  Apphia  Hale  married  1659,  Henry3  born 
1677  and  Hannah  Tappan,  Nathaniel4  born  Jan.  1713-4,  my  ancestor,  married 
Hannah  Rolfe*  (John,4  John,3  Benjamin.2  Henry1). 

Benjamin,*  born  May  31,  1752,  married  Molly  Sweat,  removed  to  Rumford, 
Maine,  John.6  born  17So;  married  Betsey  Abbott,  Enoch  C.7  If  this  is  wrong 
I  should  be  glad  of  correction,  and  to  learn  of  all  facts  relating  to  the  Rolfe 
family  from  any  one  having  such  information.  H.  P.  Rolfe. 

Great  Falls,  Montana. 


Esther  Hanford  (ante,  vol.  47,  page  214).— I  have  to  reply  to  Dr.  Banks, 
Haynes  Hanford,  of  Norwaik  (son  of  Capt.  Samuel  and  Jasabell  Haynes,  and 
gra'ndson  of  Rev.  Thomas  Hauford)  married  Elizabeth  Ketclunn,  and  had  five 
children:  1.  Jedediah;  2.  Joseph,  born  in  1742 ;  3.  Esther;  4.  John,  born  in 
1755;  5.  Mary. 

403  West  126th  St.,  New  York.  Rosell  L.  Richardson. 


Peyton.— (Vol.  47,  page  418.)— The  will  of  Henry  Peyton,  Esq.,  given  by 
Mr.  Waters  at  the  above  reference,  will  be  found  in  full  in  my  "  Virginia 
Genealogies,  1801,"  page  481,  with  a  complete  record  of  Henry  Peyton's  Amer- 
ican descendants  to  1891.  Horace  Edw.  Hayden. 

Wilkes  Barre,  Pa. 


RicnARD  Jaqees  (ante,  vol.  47,  p.  841).— Wheeler's  History  of  Brunswick, 
Topsham  and  Harpswell  states  on  page  841.  that  Lieutenant  Stephen  Jarmes, 
who  killed  Eather  Ralle,  settled  in  Harpswell,  and  that  his  descendants  ••  still 
reside  in  this  vicinity."  G.  T.  Little. 

Boicdoin  College,  Brunswick,  Maine. 


Historical  Intelligence. 

Dr.  Marshall's  Genealogist's  Guide,  Third  Edition. — The  second  edition 
of  '-The  Genealogist's  Guide;  being  a  General  Search  through  Genealogical, 
Topographical  and  Biographical  Works,  Family  Histories,  Peerage  Claims,  etc.," 
published  in  1885,  has  for  some  time  been  out  of  print.  The  author,  George 
W.  Marshall,  LL.D.,  F.S.A.,  Rouge  Croix  Pursuivant  of  the  Herald's  College, 
has  determined  to  issue  a  third  edition,  with  a  supplement  containing  a  large 
number  of  additional  references,  and  to  add  also  a  complete  Catalogue  of 
Printed  Parish  Besristers,  and  references  to  extracts  from  Registers,  both 
print. -d  and  manuscript.  His  new  edition  of  the  Guide  will  be  privately  printed 
for  subscribers  onlv,  and  will  be  limited  to  250  copies.  The  subscription  price 
will  be  25  shillings"  Subscriptions  will  be  received  by  Messrs.  Belling  &  Sons, 
London  Printing  Works,  Guildford,  England.  Those  who  desire  the  work 
should  sond  in  their  orders  earlv.  The  work  is  in  piess,  and  will  be  issued  as 
soon  a?  the  subscription  list  is  complete. 

The  catalogue  of  Parish  Registers  will  be  much  extended  from  the  privately 
priuted  work  issued  in  1891. 


80  Notes  and  Queries.  [Jan. 

Discovery  of  the  Birthplace  of  the  Apostle  Eliot.— The  birthplace  of 
Eev.  John  Eliot  of  Koxbury  has  till  last  year  been  unknown,  though  it  has  gen- 
erally been  supposed  that  he  was  born  at  Nazing  in  Essex,  where  a  brother  of 
his  and  two  sisters  were  baptized,  ami  where  his  father  Bennet  Eliot  died  [ante, 
Register,  2S  :  140-5  ;  39  :  3(15-71).  In  1893.  a  descendant,  Ellsworth  Eliot,  M.D., 
of  New  York  city  (whose  address  is  No.  48  West  36th  street),  visited  England, 
and  made  some  genealogical  searches.  lie  found  on  the  parish  register  of  St. 
John  Baptist  at  Widford,  Herts.,  a  record  of  the  marriage  of  his  parents,  viz.  : 
"  Bennett  Eliot  and  Letteye  Aggar  were  married  the  30tirof  October  1508."  On 
the  same  register  is  found  the  baptism  of  the  Apostle,  as  follows  :  "  John  Elliott 
the  sonue  of  Bennett  Elliott  was  baptized  the  fyfte  daye  of  August  1004."  The 
baptisms  of  his  sister  Sarah  in  1599,  his  brother  Philip  in  1002^ and  Ins  brother 
Jacob  iu  1000  are  also  there  recorded.  Between  1006  and  1010,  the  family  seems 
to  have  removed  to  Nazing.  Dr.  Eliot  lias  made  arrangements  through  the 
rector  of  Widford,  Rev.  John  Traviss  Lockwood,  to  have  a  memorial  Window 
placed  in  the  church  in  memory  of  his  ancestor,  and  has  issued  a  circular  to 
other  descendants  inviting  those  interested  to  contribute  towards  the  expense 
of  the  window. 


Lincoln  County  Probate  Records.  — The  Maine  Genealogical  Society, 
Portland,  Maine,  have  issued  a  prospectus  for  publishing  probate  records  of 
Lincoln  county,  Maine,  compiled  by  William  D.  Patterson  of  Wiscasset.  Maine. 
Lincoln  county,  which  was  organized  in  1700,  included  nearly  all  the  territory 
north  and  east  of  the  Androscoggin  river.  Some  of  the  territory  was  taken 
in  1789  to  form  Washington  and  Hancock  counties;  in  1799  Kennebec  county; 
Waldo  in  1827;  Androscoggin  and  Sagadahock  in  1854:  and  Knox  in  1S6"0. 
The  wills  will  be  giyen  verbatim  and  an  abstract  of  other  records. 

The  work  will  be  issued  in  monthly  parts  of  16  pages,  at  25  cents  a  part,  pay- 
able in  advance.  Twenty  parts  will  form  a  volume,  and  a  title  page,  preface 
and  index  will  be  furnished.  Much  valuable  historical  matter,  concerning  the 
early.history  of  Maine,  will  be  contained  in  this  work. 


Souvenir  Spoon  of  the  Denison  Family.— A  souvenir  or  memorial  spoon 
has  been  issued  by  the  Denisons  at  Mystic,  Connecticut.  On  the  inside  of  the 
bowl  of  this  spoon  is  a  view  of  the  first  house  built  in  Mvstic  by  Capt.  George 
Denison  in  1008,  which  was  taken  down  in  1883.  These  dates" appear  on  the 
back  of  the  handle.  The  top  of  the  handle  represents  the  Denison  coat-of-arms 
with  the  motto:  Domus  Grata,  as  copied  from  the  tombstone  at  Ipswich, 
Massachusetts,  and  along  the  handle,  extending  down  to  the  bowl,  are  the  let- 
ters composing  the  name  D  E-N-I-S-O-N.  It  is  a  handsome,  heavy  teaspoon,  and 
is  admired  by  those  who  have  seen  it.  It  is  not  the  intention  of  the  originator 
to  otter  it  for  sale  as  a  speculation ;  but  those  interested  can  obtain  one  by  send- 
ing three  dollars— a  price,  we  are  told,  which  will  not  cover  the  cost— to  Mr. 
Charles  Hyde  Denison,  97  Front  street.  New  York  city,  or  Miss  E.  E.  Cottrell, 
Greenfield,  Mass. 


Dudley  Family  Relics.— Mrs.  Elizabeth  C.  Young,  of  Medford,  whose  obi- 
tuary is  printed  in  this  number  of  the  Register;  presented,  on  the  14th  of  Novem- 
ber, 1881,  to  the  New-England  Historic  Genealogical  Society  the  following  relics 
preserved  under  glass  in  a  frame :  Four  caps  which  were  made  before  the  birth 
of  the  first  child  of  William  and  Sarah  (Williams)  Dudley,  who  was  born  June 
19,  1774.  Several  ruffles  worked  or  embroidered  by  that  child  when  she  was 
thirteen  years  old  for  her  mother  to  wear  to  commencement  at  Harvard  College. 
A  silver  tea-spoon,  being  one  of  six  given  to  the  above  Sarah  Williams  by  her 
brother  Henry  Howell  Williams  previous  to  her  marriage  to  Mr.  Dudley.  A 
knitting  sheath  which  had  been  in  the  Dudley  family  through  seven  seta-rations. 
Mrs.  Young,  the  donor,  was  a  grandchild  of  William  and  Sarah  Dudley,  being 
a  daughter  of  their  first  child  above  referred  to. 


Genealogies  in-  Preparation.—  Persons  of  the  several  names  are  advised  to 
furnish  the  compilers  of  these  genealogies  with  records  of  their  own  families 


1894.]  Societies  and  their  Proceedings.  81 

end  other  information  which  they  think  may  be  useful.  We  would  suggest  that 
all  facts  of  interest  illustrating  family  history  or  character  be  communicated, 
especially  service  under  the  U.  S.  Government,  the  holding  of  other  oilices, 
graduation  from  college  or  professional  schools,  occupation,  with  places  and 
dates  of  births,  marriages,  residence  aud  death.  When  there  are  more  than  one 
christian  name  they  should  all  be  given  in  full  if  possible.  No  initials  should 
be  used  when  the  full  names  arc  known. 

Balch. — A  genealogy  in  preparation  by  Galusha  B.  Balch,  M.D.,  Yonkers,  New 
York. 

Fainceather.—  By  Walter  C.  Fainveather,  P.  O.  Box  11,  St.  John,  New  Bruns- 
wick. For  some  time  past  Mr.  Fainveather  has  been  collecting  material  for  a 
genealogy  of  this  family.  He  has  very  full  records  of  his  immediate  ancestors 
and  their  descendants,  and  is  very  anxious  to  extend  his  work  further  back. 
Information  sent  to  him  at  the  above  address  will  be  thankfully  received. 

Hamblen. —  H.  F.  Andrews,  Audubon,  Iowa,  is  compiling  a  genealogy  of  this 
family. 

Harrimnn.—  H.  P.  Rolfe,  317-19  Central  Avenue,  Great  Falls,  Montana,  is  in- 
vestigating the  genealogy  of  this  family  and  has  much  information  from  town 
and  county  records. 

Hitchcock. — The  Hitchcock  family  history  which  has  long  been  in  preparation 
is  now  ready  for  the  press,  and  will  be  printed  as  soou  as  150  copies  are  sub- 
scribed for.  The  price  will  be  So  a  copy.  The  volume  will  contain  600  pages 
or  more,  and  will  trace  the  family  in  its  two  branches  from  Matthias  of  Water- 
town,  Mass.,  and  East  Haven,  Conn.,  and  of  Luke  of  Wethersfield,  Conn.,  from 
1635-1886.  Subscriptions  and  genealogical  data  should  be  addressed  to  Mrs. 
Mary  L.  Hitchcock,  Amherst,  Mass. 


Kellogg — Foote. — In  the  article  on  the  Kelloggs  of  Colchester  which  appears 
in  this  number,  pp.  59-64,  under  the  head  of  "  Disconnected  Items."  it  is  stated 
that  Mary,  daughter  of  Aaron  Kellogg,  married  May  31,  1763,  Isaac  Foote.  This 
is  incorrect;  the  Mary  who  married  Isaac  Foote  may  have  been  the  daushter 
of  Abner0  Kellogg.  J.  H.  Perrlx. 


SOCIETIES    AND    THEIR    PROCEEDINGS. 

New-England  Historic  Genealogical  Society. 

Boston,  Massachusetts,  Wednesday,  October  4,  1893. — A  stated  meeting  was 
held  at  the  hall  of  Boston  University,  at  three  o'clock  this  afternoon.  Bev. 
Alonzo  A.  Miner,  D.D.,  was  chosen  chairman,  and  Walter  K.  Watkins  secretary 
pro  tern. 

Rev.  George  M.  Bodge,  of  Leominster,  Mass.,  read  a  paper  entitled  "A 
Representative  New-Ensland  Church  in  its  Genesis  and  Growth.'"  A  bible  was 
exhibited  by  Mr.  Bodge  which  has  been  claimed  to  have  belonged  to  Rev.  John 
Rogers,  the  proto-martyr,  but  which  the  late  Mr.  George  Offor  pronounced  to 
be  of  the  edition  of  1561— six  years  after  the  martyr's  death  (Mass.  Hist.  Coll. 
x-<  4*1).  This  bible  was  exhibited  at  the  Leominster  celebrations  of  1843  and 
1893. 

John  Ward  Dean,  the  librarian,  reported  61  volumes,  122  pamphlets  and  3 
other  articles  had  been  received  as  donations  since  the  June  meeting. 

I  he  Council  made  its  monthly  report.  Five  candidates  for  resident  and  one 
lor  corresponding  memberships  were  nominated. 

*  ODr  r,-'*ident  and  one  corresponding  member,  nominated  at  the  June  meeting, 
were  balloted  for  and  elected. 

v  '    *",zra  II'  B-vington>  D.D.,  reported  the  recent  deaths  of  nine  members. 

AowwJur  J— A  stated  meeting  was  held  this  afternoon  at  three  o'clock,  the 
Pn       llr  William  Clatiin,  LL.D.,  in  the  chair. 

David  G.  Haskins,  Jr.,  reDorted  resolutions  on  the  death  of  the  Rt.  Rev. 
William  Ingraham  Kip,  D.d'.,  LL.D.,  bishop  of  California,  who  was  for  four- 
VOL.    XLVIII.  8 


82  Societies  and  their  Proceedings.  [Jan. 

teeu  years  honorary  vice-president  of  the  Society.  The  resolutions  were  unani- 
mously adopted. 

Hou.  Thomas  Weston,  Jr.,  of  Newton,  read  a  paper  on  "William  Bradford 
and  his  Influence  on  Plymouth  Colony." 

William  Stanford  Stevens.  M.D.,  the  corresponding  secretary,  reported  the 
acceptance  of  live  resident  members. 

The  librarian  reported  as  donations  during  the  last  month,  59  volumes,  57 
pamphlets  and  6  other  articles. 

George  A.  Gordon,  the  secretary,  read  the  report  of  the  Council.  One  resi- 
dent and  one  corresponding  member  were  nominated  by  the  Council. 

Five  resident  members  and  one  corresponding  member  were  elected  by  ballot. 

The  historiographer  reported  the  deaths  of  three  members  of  the  Society. 

December  6. — A  stated  meeting  was  held  this  afternoon  at 3  o'clock,  President 
Claflin  in  the  chair. 

Prof.  Marvin  I).  Bisbee,  of  Dartmouth  College,  read  a  paper  on  "  The  Influ- 
ence of  Bishop  Berkeley  on  New-England  Thought." 

The  report  of  the  corresponding'secretary  was  read  by  the  recording  secre- 
tary. Seven  persons  elected  as  resideut  members  have  accepted  their  member- 
ship. 

The  librarian  reported  42  volumes  and  23  pamphlets  as  donations. 

The  Council,  by  its  secretary,  made  its  monthly  report  and  nominated  seven 
candidates  for  resident  members  and  one  as  a  corresponding  member. 

One  resident  and  one  corresponding  member,  nominated  in  November,  were 
elected. 

The  historiographer's  report  announced  the  deaths  of  three  life  and  two  resi- 
dent members. 

Hou.  Thomas  Weston  and  Messrs.  Aaron  Sargent,  Warren  Bartlett  Ellis, 
George  S.  Mann  and  Charles  Frank  Mason  were  unanimously  elected  by  ballot 
as  a  committee  to  nominate  officers  for  the  ensuing  year. 

Messrs.  Austin  J.  Coolidge  and  Henry  E.  Woods  were  elected  a  committee  to 
audit  the  treasurer's  accounts. 

On  motion  of  Mr.  Oliver  B.  Stebbins  the  Council  was  requested  to  consider 
the  expediency  of,  and  if  deemed  expedient,  to  propose  to  the  Society  some  plan 
for  celebrating  the  Society's  Jubilee  or  50th  Anniversary  which  occurs  next 
year. 

Old  Colony  Historical  Society. 

Taunton,  Massachusetts,  Tuesday,  August  S,  1S93. — The  quarterly  meeting 
was  held  this  evening,  by  adjournment,  in  Historical  Hall,  the  president,  Rev. 
S.  Hopkins  Emery,  D^D.,  in  the  chair.     ' 

President  Emery  made  a  brief  address.  Sketches  of  members  who  had  died 
recently  were  read,  namely:  Hon.  James  Brown,  Capt.  Sylvester  N.  Staples, 
Capt.  William  Henry  Phillips,  Lysander  Soper,  Charles  W.  Hartshorn,  Dea. 
Edgar  Hodges  Peed  "and  Moses  Day  Kimball. 

An  interesting  letter  from  Director  Elisha  Clarke  Leonard  of  New  Bedford 
was  read. 

Bradford  Kingman,  Esq.,  of  Brookline,  the  historian  of  North  Bridgewater, 
now  Brockton,  delivered  an  historical  address. 

Capt.  John  W.  D.  Hall,  the  librarian,  reported  valuable  donations  during  the 
last  quarter. 

Maine  Historical  Society. 

Kittery  Point,  Maine,  and  Portsmouth,  X.  H.,  Friday  and  Saturday,  September 
8  and  9,  1S93-— The  Field  Day  Excursion  of  this  Society  this  year  was  held  in 
these  places.  The  party  landed  in  the  Great  Orchard  of  Sir  William  Pepperrell 
on  Friday  forenoon,  and  were  welcomed  by  Mr.  Moses  A.  Safford,  chairman  of 
the  committee  in  charge.  They  proceeded  to  the  hotel  where  dinner  was  served, 
after  which  historic  residences  and  other  places  of  interest  were  visited. 

In  the  evening  a  meeting  was  held  in  the  parlor  of  the  hotel,  the  president  of 
the  Society,  Hon.  James  P.  Baxter,  in  the  chair.  Sp?eches  were  made  by  Presi- 
dent Baxter.  Revs.  Henry  V.  Emmons,  Henry  S.  Barrage  and  E.  C.  Oummings, 
Mr.  Frank  W.  Hackett,  Paymaster  Joseph  Foster,  U.  S.N.,  Mr.  Moses  A.  Saf- 
ford, and  the  secretary  Mr.  Hubbard  W.  Bryant,  who  presented  in  the  name  of 


1894.]       Necrology  of  Historic  Genealogical  Society.  83 

John  S.  IT.  Fogg,  M.D.,  of  South  Boston,  Mass.,  a  parchment  deed  bearing  the 
autographs  of  several  noted  men  in  the  history  of  Maine — Samuel  Maverick  the 
King's  commissioner,  Capt.  Francis  Chaniperuowne,  and  Roger  Garde  mayor  of 
Gorgeana. 

Saturday  morning  after  breakfast  the  party  found  a  steamer  in  Waiting,  and 
were  taken  up  the  Pascataqua  and  were  shown  many  interesting  localities  on 
both  sides  of  the  river.  On  their  return  they  landed  at  Portsmouth,  where  they 
were  shown  objects  of  interest  iu  that  time-honored  place.  In  the  afternoon, 
after  dinner,  they  returned  home. 

Rhode  Island  Historical  Society. 

Providence,  Tuesday,  October  3,  1893.—  The  regular  quarterly  meeting  of  the 
Society  was  held  in  its  cabinet  this  evening,  Geu.^Horatio  Rogers  the  president 
in  the  chair. 

Amos  Perry,  LL.D.,  the  librarian,  reported  as  donations  during  the  last  quar- 
ter, 55  volumes,  212  pamphlets  and  31  other  articles. 

A  committee  was  appointed  to  confer  with  the  executor  of  Charles  "W.  Par- 
sons, M.D.,  a  vice  president  of  the  Society,  who  bequeathed  to  it  four  thousand 
dollars  on  certain  conditions. 

November  14. — A  meeting  was  held  this  evening. 

Hon.  William  T.  Davis,  of  Plymouth,  Mass.,  read  a  paper  on  "  The  Pilgrim 
and  the  Plymouth  Colony,  with  some  reference  to  the  controversy  concerning 
the  boundary  liue  between  that  colony  and  Rhode  Island." 

New  Haven  Colony  Historical  Society. 

New  Haven,  Conn.,  Thursday,  Sept.  28, 1893.— The  English  Memorial  Building 
presented  to  the  Society  by  Henry  F.  English,  Esq.,  as  a  memorial  of  his  father 
Hon.  James  E.  English,  and  of  "his  mother  Caroline  Fowler  English,  was  for- 
mally dedicated  this  day.  A  large  audience  numbering  over  four  hundred  per- 
sons was  present,  including  delegates  from  many  sister  societies.  The  exer- 
cises were  opened  with  prayer  by  the  Rev.  Newman  Smyth,  D.D.,  and  included 
an  address  by  Hon.  Simeon  E.  Baldwin,  an  oration  on  the  life  of  Hon.  James 
E.  English  by  Horace  Day,  Esq.,  and  a  paper  on  the  history  of  the  Society  by 
its  present  secretary,  Thomas  R.  Trowbridge.  Remarks  were  made  by  Gen. 
Francis  A.  Walker,  president  of  the  American  Statistical  Association,  Prof. 
Herbert  B.  Adams,  secretary  of  the  American  Historical  Association,  Judge 
Harden  of  the  Georgia  Historical  Society,  and  Hon.  Charles  A.  Reed  of  the 
Old  Colony  Historical  Society.  At  the  close  of  the  exercises  a  collation  and 
informal  reception  was  held  in  the  exhibition  halls. 

Monday,  Nov.  27. — The  annual  meeting  of  the  Society  was  held  this  day. 
The  following  officers  were  elected  for  the  ensuing  year: 

President. — Hon.  Simeon  E.  Baldwin,  LL.D. 

Vice-President. — Eli  Whitney,  Esq. 

Secretary. — Thomas  R.  Trowbridge,  Esq. 

Treasurer. — Dwight  E.  Bowers,  A.B.,  LL.B. 


NECROLOGY  OF  THE  NEW-ENGLAND  HISTORIC 
GENEALOGICAL  SOCIETY. 

Prepared  by  the  Historiographer,  Rev.  Ezra  Hoyt  Byington,  D.D.,  of  Newton,  Mass. 

The  sketches  of  deceased  members  prepared  for  the  Register  are  of 
necessity  brief,  because  the  space  that  can  be  appropriated  is  quite  limited. 
All  the  materials  for  more  extended  memoirs  which  can  be  gathered  are 
preserved  in  the  archives  of  the  Society,  and  they  will  be  available  for  use 
in  preparing  the  ''Memorial  Biographies,"  of  which  four  volumes  have 
been  issued  and  a  fifth  volume  is  in  press.  The  income  from  the  Towne 
Memorial  Fuud  is  devoted  to  the  publication  of  these  volumes. 


84  Necrology  of  Historic  Genealogical  Society.  [Jan. 

Rev.  Andrew  Preston  Peabody,  A.M.,  D.D..  LL.D.,  was  elected  a  resident 
member  of  this  Society  January  3,  1883;  became  a  member  of  the  Council- in 
1S89,  and  took  a  prominent  part  in  carrying  forward  the  business  of  the  Society 
until  he  resigned  his  seat  in  the  Council  in  June,  1892.  He  was  quite  frequently 
present  at  our  stated  meetings,  and  contributed  from  time  to  time  valuable  his- 
torical papers.  His  death,  on  the  10th  of  March,  1893,  removed  from  us  one  of 
the  most  useful  and  distinguished  of  our  members. 

He  was  born  in  Beverly",  Mass.,  March  19,  1S11.  His  ancestry  was  of  the 
best  Puritan  stock.  He  was  of  the  seventh  generation  from  Lieut.  Francis 
Peabody,  who  came  to  New  England  in  1635.  His  name  is  enrolled  in  the  fol- 
lowing "certificate  dated  April  2,  1(335,  found  in  the  "Augmentation  Office,"  in 
Rolls  Court,  Westminster  Hall,  London  :  "  Theis  underwritten  names  are  to  be 
transported  to  New-England,  imbarked  in  the  Planter,  Nicholas  Traice,  Master, 
bound  thither.  The  parties  have  brought  certificate  from  the  minister  of  Great 
St.  Albans  in  Hertfordshire,  and  attestacons  from  the  Justices  of  the  Peace, 
accoriting  to  the  Lords  order." 

Lieut.  Peabody  settled  at  Ipswich,  from  which  place  he  removed  to  Hampton, 
N.  H.,  and  later  "to  Topstield,  Mass.,  where  he  became  one  of  the  most  promi- 
nent men  of  the  town,  both  for  property  and  enterprise.  He  is  termed  in  the 
early  records  "  Husbandman."  Among  his  descendants  have  been  men  disting- 
uished for  piety  and  patriotism.  Some  have  acquired  large  fortunes.  Among 
these  should  be  counted  George  Peabody  of  London,  the  eminent  banker  and 
philanthropist,  whose  benefactions,  amounting  to  several  millions  of  dollars, 
have  no  parallel  in  history.  Others  have  been  distinguished  in  literature  and 
science,  and  in  professional  life. 

Dr.  Peabody  was  graduated  at  Harvard  in  182G,  when  he  was  only  fifteen 
years  of  age.  He  was  a  private  tutor  at  Meadville,  Penn.,  for  some  years,  after 
which  he  entered  the  Divinity  School  at  Harvard,  and  was  graduated  in  1832. 
He  was  tutor  in  mathematics" at  his  Alma  Mater  in  1832.  He  was  ordained  and 
installed  as  pastor  of  the  South  Church  (Unitarian)  in  Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  in 
1833,  and  continued  in  that  office  for  twenty-seven  years.  In  1860  he  was  ap- 
pointed Plumer  Professor  of  Christian  Morals  in  Harvard  College,  and  preacher 
to  the  University.  He  resigned  these  positions  iu  1881.  He  was  acting  presi- 
dent of  Harvard  in  1862,  aud  again  in  1868-9.  He  was  editor  of  the  North 
American  Review  from  18.53  to  1863.  He  was  a  frequent  contributor  to  the 
Christian  Examiner,  the  Whig  Review,  the  New-England  Magazine,  the  North 
American  Review,  and  to  various  other  publications.  He  published  a  number 
of  volumes  of  lectures  and  sermons,  besides  a  large  number  of  occasional  ser- 
mons. His  most  elaborate  work,  published  in  1887,  was  his  "  Lectures  on  Moral 
Philosophy." 

In  his  character  and  personal  qualities  he  was  pre-eminently  a  Puritan  of  the 
very  highest  type,  although  his  theological  views  were  quite  different  from  those 
of  the  Puritans.  He  was,  above  all  else,  an  apostle  of  righteousness.  As  a 
preacher,  and  teacher,  and  author  ho  stood  for  the  things  that  are  true  and  just. 
He  had  great  skill  in  commending  the  truth  to  the  conscience.  He  was  a  very 
diligent  student  down  to  the  last  year  of  his  life,  and  his  learning  was  varied 
and  profound.  His  character  was  as  simple  as  it  was  elevated.  When  he  was 
convinced  that  he  had  been  mistaken  in  his  judgments,  and  that  he  had  done 
injustice  to  any  one,  he  was  prompt  and  generous  in  his  efforts  to  make  full 
reparation.  He  was  decided  in  his  religious  opinions,  but  as  free  as  any  man 
from  sectarian  narrowness.  He  preserved  to  a  remarkable  degree  in  his  old  age 
the  fresh  feelings  of  youth.  He  did  not  seem  to  be  an  old  man.  During  his 
last  years  all  his  powers,  except  perhaps  the  memory,  seemed  to  be  unimpaired. 
Dr.  Peabody  was  one  of  the  few  men  who  have  been  able  to  bring  forth  fruit 
in  old  age  as  fine  as  that  of  earlier  years. 

Francis  Parkman,  A.B..LL.B.,  LL.D.,  was  born  in  Boston,  Sept.  16,  1823, 
in  a  fine  old  house  of  the  colonial  period,  fronting  on  Bowdoin  Square,  and  he 
has  always  had  a  home  in  Boston.  Many  of  his  ancestors  were  ministers.  The 
family  line  is  traced  back  to  Elias  Parkman,  who  came  to  New  England  in  the 
early  years  of  the  Colony, — was  a  freeman  in  Dorchester  in  1633.— -and  after- 
ward removed  to  Hartford,  and  finally  settled  in  Bo:-,ton.  The  great-grandfather 
of  Francis  Parkman  was  the  first  minister  of  Westboro',  Mass.  His  father, 
from  whom  he  was  named,  was  also  a  minister,  of  whom  pleasant  traditions 


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have  come  down  to  us.  Harvard  College  has  received  the  endowment  of  two 
professorships  from  a  member  of  this  family. 

Mr.  Francis  Parkman  was  graduated  at  Harvard  in  1844,  and  studied  law  two 
years  after  his  graduation.  He  was  attracted  towards  literary  pursuits  more 
strongly  than  towards  a  professional  career,  and  before  completing  his  course 
at  the  Law  School  he  decided  to  devote  himself  to  historical  studies.  He  went 
abroad  for  a  time,  and  after  his  return  he  spent  several  months  among  the 
Rocky  Mountains,  living  for  a  time  among  the  Dacotas  and  other  tribes  of  wild 
Indians.  His  health  was  broken  by  the  exposure  of  these  journeys,  and  he  was 
a  sufferer  for  the  remainder  of  his  life.  His  first  book  was  an  account  of  the 
Rocky  Mountain  region  and  its  inhabitants.  Four  years  later  he  published  "  The 
Com-piracy  of  Pontiac  aud  the  Indian  War  after  the  Conquest  of  Canada."  His 
third  book  was  a  novel,  with  the  title  "  Vassall  Morton."  In  1866  he  published 
his  "Book  of  Roses."  The  same  year  "The  Pioneers  of  France  in  the  New 
"World  "  was  published.  In  1803  he  published  "  The  Jesuits  in  North  America  in 
the  Seventeenth  Century,"  and  in  1869  "  La  Salle  and  the  Discovery  of  the  Great 
West."  He  also  published  "  The  Old  Regime  in  Canada"  in  1874,  and  "  Count 
Frontenac  and  the  New  France  under  Louis  XIV."  in  1877.  "  Montcalm  and 
Wolfe,"  in  two  volumes,  appeared  in  1884. 

Mr.  Parkman  was  a  diligent  and  enterprising  student.  He  made  a  number  of 
visits  to  France,  aud  examined  the  original  documents  which  were  the  authori- 
ties for  his  histories.  He  is  regarded  by  some  judicious  critics  as  the  most 
philosophical  of  American  historians. 

He  was  elected  a  resident  member  of  the  New-England  Historic  Genealogical 
Society  Sept.  6,  1865.  He  was  also  a  prominent  member  of  the  Massachusetts 
Horticultural  Society,  and  for  two  years  its  president. 

Hox.  Leopold  Morse,  a  member  of  this  Society,  elected  February  6,  1884, 
died  at  his  residence  on  Commonwealth  Aveuue,  Boston,  December  15,  1892. 
Mr.  Morse  had  represented  the  City  of  Boston  in  Congress  from  1877  to  1885, 
and  from  18*57  to  18S9.  Although  the  nominee  of  the  democratic  party,  he  was 
widely  supported  by  those  who  did  Dot  affiliate  with  that  party.  He  had  by  his 
own  exertions  attained  a  position  as  one  of  the  leading  merchauts  of  Boston, 
his  house  (Leopold  Morse  &  Co.)  being  among  the  most  prominent  and  wealthy 
in  the  clothing  trade.  Not  alone  had  he  the  trust  of  his  brother  democrats. 
There  was  a  confidence  extending  beyond  party  ties,  among  the  merchants  of 
Boston,  that  his  sagacity,  mercantile  intelligence  and  integrity  could  serve  the 
general  interests  and  commerce  of  the  city  greatly  to  their  advantage.  So  he 
did.  Boston  during  the  last  sixty  years  has  profited  much  by  the  ability  and 
comprehension  of  the  merchants  who  have  represented  her  in  Congress,  and  the 
names  of  Lawrence,  Appleton,  Hooper,  Rice  and  Morse  as  representatives  of  her 
material  interests  will  fill  an  honorable  place  in  her  history.  In  Congress  Mr. 
Morse  served  on  important  committees  with  credit,  and  was  influential  both  for 
his  native  good  sense  aud  keen  perceptions  and  for  his  generous  and  courteous 
spirit.  The  cause  of  the  humble  and  the  influential  of  his  constituents  found 
alike  a  prompt  and  vigorous  aid  from  him.  In  banking  and  real  estate  his 
judgment  stood  hiirh  among  the  business  men  of  Boston.  Mr.  Morse's  health 
became  somewhat  impaired  for  two  years  before  his  death,  which  rendered  visits 
to  European  springs  necessary.  He  was  a  liberal  giver  in  a  good  cause,  and 
was  prompt  to  sympathize  with  distress  and  misfortune.  He  founded  and  en- 
dowed the  "Boston  Home  for  aged  and  infirm  Hebrews  and  Orphanage"  at 
West  Roxbury,  in  his  life — which  continues  in  successful  existence. 

Mr.  Morse  was  bom  Aug.  15,  1831,  in  the  town  of  Wachenheim  in  the  Rhenish 
Palitinate,  Bavaria,  and  came  to  this  country  in  1848,  where  he  joined  an  elder 
brother  then  in  trade  at  Sandwich,  N.  H.  In  the  keen  struggles  of  the  town 
meetings  aud  the  March  elections  of  that  political  battle-ground,  the  American 
lessons  of  self-government  and  constitutional  liberty  were  planted  in  his  breast 
as  the  rule  of  rfght.  Not  only  did  Mr.  Morse  become  a  citizen  of  this  republic, 
but  he  gave  a  bond  to  fate  of  the  permanency  of  his  adoption  by  wedding  an 
estimable  lady  descended  from  the  old  Puritan  stock  of  Essex  County  (Miss 
Ray),  who  with  two  of  their  sons  survive  him. 

After  he  became  of  age  he  soon  reached  Boston  and  entered  into  business 
which  by  his  tact,  ability  and  integrity  was  developed  into  large  proportions. 
In  after  life  he  remained  grateful  to  those  older  merchants  who  gave  him  a 

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business  credit  when  Lis  state  was  small  and  interested  themselves  in  h's  pro- 
gress, and  never  shrunk  from  avowing  his  obligation  to  them  Mr  Morse  had 
a  large  heart,  a  generous  hand  and  a  good  head,  coupled  with  rare  business 
qualities.  An  exemplary  husband  and  a  kind  father,  and  an  unflinching  friend 
A  striking  evidence  of  the  esteem  in  which  Mr.  Morse  was  held  bv  all  "ranks  in 
this  city  was  shown  in  the  composition  of  the  vast  gathering  at  his  funeral 
The  leading  merchants,  distinguished  members  of  the  professions  "the  ma*- 
nates  of  political  and  city  life,  were  blended  with  his  workmen  who  had  loved 
him.  men  and  women,  the  old  and  crippled  whom  he  had  served  in  some  wav 
and  the  stalwart  citizens  whose  principles  he  had  represented  in  Congress 
Every  race  and  every  religion  dwelling  amongst  us  were  represented  in  the'-reat 
and  serious  throng  who  came  to  look  their  last  on  the  inanimate  remains  of  one 
whose  honorable,  kindly  and  useful  life  had  endeared  him  to  them  bevond  the 
mere  affinities  growing  from  a  similarity  of  political  principles.  Boston  has 
lost  in  him  a  public-spirited  and  able  citizen  who  promoted  and  sought  her  wel- 
fare with  fidelity  and  success. 

F»j  Hon.  Charles  Levi  Woodbury,  of  Boston. 


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iMa  Millet,  M.D.,  elected  a  resident  member  of  the  Societv  August  *  18G 
died  at  East  Eridgewater,  Mass.,  March  21.  1S93,  in  the  eightieth  vear  ofjbis  as*. 
Dr.  Millet  was  a  descendant  of  Thomas  Millet  of  London  (South  wark).  who 
T*6-  tVV  .  Pr,aIT  GreeQoway)  came  to  New  England  on  the  ship  Elisabeth  in 
ltw.  He  settled  hrst  in  Dorchester,  afterwards  in  Gloucester,  where  for  sev- 
eral generations  the  name  was  a  common  one.  Thomas  Millet,  the  Grandfather 
of  our  member,  removed  to  Leeds,  Me.  He  was  a  revolutionary  soldier  and  a 
manner  on  the  Hancock,  the  war-ship  ordered  by  the  Continental  Congress  and 
built  by  Massachusetts  in  177G.  His  wife  was  Eunice  Parsons.  Their  son, 
Zebulon  1  arsons  Miliet,  married  Deliverance  Rich  of  Sandwich,  Mass.,  and 
resided  m  Leeds,  where  Asa  Millet  was  born.  June  22,  1813. 

Hejitted  for  college  at  Monmouth  and  Waterville  Academies  in  his  native 
state,  and  took  a  partial  course  in  Waterville  College  (now  Colby  University-) 
in  the  class  of  1836.  After  a  few  years  spent  in  teaching  he  devoted  himself  to 
the  study  of  medicine,  graduating  from  the  Medical  School  of  Maine  at  Bowdoin 
College  m  1842.  He  began  the  practice  of  his  profession  in  Mattapoisett.  Mass 
removing  in  1847  to  East  Bridgewater.  From  1854  to  18G2  he  resided  in  Abin<*- 
ton  and  from  1802  to  1873  in  Bridgewater.  returning  in  the  latter  year  to  East 
iSridgewater,  where  he  remained  to  the  close  of  his  life.  The  whole  half  cen- 
tury of  his  professional  career  was  thus  speut  in  the  Old  Colony,  where  he  was 
thoroughly  known  and  respected. 

iifl*  ,a*  a  mem^er,  and  at  one  time  a  vice-president,  of  the  Massachusetts 
Medical  Society  He  belonged  also  to  the  Society  of  the  Sons  of  the  American 
Revolution  Although  a  man  of  strong  political  convictions  and  connected  from 
tlie  hrst  with  the  republican  party,  he  never  held  political  office  except  as  a  mem- 
ber of  Governor  Andrew's  Council  in  1865,  to  which  position  he  was  elected  bv 
the  legislature  to  till  a  vacancy  caused  bv  resignation.  He  served  in  the  arm  v  for 
a  short  time  as  contract  surgeon  in  18G1,  until  sickness  compelled  him  to  return 
home  but  as  member  of  the  Surgical  Aid  Corps  he  made  several  visits  to  the 
front  during  the  progress  of  the  war. 

Dr.  Millet  was  married  in  1*43  to  Miss  Huldah  Allen  Bvram  of  East  Bridge- 
water,  daughter  of  Capt.  Branch  Byram  and  Anne  Washburn.  She  survives 
r^1  *  S^.if?8  «"»  two  daughters.  The  sons,  all  graduates  of  Harvard, 
are  h  rank  D  Millet,  the  artist,  widely  known  in  connection  with  the  Columbian 
Exposition,  Josiah  B.  Millet,  of  the  publishing  house  of  J  B  Millet  Co  Bos- 
ton, and  Charles  S.  Millet,  M.D.,  of  Rockland." 
By  Bev.  Charles  C.  Carpenter,  A.M.,  of  Andover,  JIass. 

n^E?Pf^IIITFIELD  AVERY'  MD'  of  Hartford>  Ct.,  a  life  member,  elected 
Oct.  7,  1868,  was  a  sou  of  David  and  Rebecca  (Morgan)  Averv,  and  was  born 
at  Hampton  Conn.  Sept.  27,  183.J.  His  grandfather,  Rev.  David  Averv.  a 
descendant  of  one  of  the  early  settlers  of  Groton,  Conn.,  graduated  at  Yale 
College  in  1-09  served  in  the  Revolutionary  War,  married  Haunah  Chaplin, 
daughter  of  the  founder  of  Chaplin,  Conn.,  and  preached  at  Wrentham.  Mass, 
and  at  Chaplin.  Dr.  Avery's  father,  born  at  Wrentham  in  1787,  graduated  at 
.Brown  Lniversity,  and  taught  for  a  time  in  Providence,  R.  I.    He  was  a  student 


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of  the  classics  and  of  English  Literature,  and  was  active  in  the  cause  of  anti- 
slavery  and  of  temperance. 

Dr.  Avery  had  expected  to  make  teaching  his  life  work,  but  was  led  to  decide 
on  studying  medicine,  graduated  in  1861  at  the  Yale  Medical  school,  and  was 
then  made  house  physician  at  the  New  Haven  Hospital. 

At  the  opening  of'  the  war  he  was  appointed,  by  Gov.  Buckingham,  Assistant 
Surgeon  of  the  9th  Connecticut  volunteers,  and  showed  great  zeal  and  efficiency 
in  the  hospital  on  Ship  Island,  where  he  was  first  stationed. 

In  1862  he  went  with  General  Butler  to  New  Orleans,  and  the  following  year 
was  put  at  the  head  of  the  St.  James  Hospital  there,  and  for  two  years  under 
General  Butler  he  had  charge  of  all  the  sanitary  arrangements  of  the  city. 
He  was  appointed  in  December,  1863.  surgeon  of  the  first  New  Orleans  Volun- 
teers, and  subsequently  held,  during  his  ten  years'  residence  in  New  Orleans, 
various  important  offices,  civil  and  military,  among  others  that  of  High  Sheriff. 
During  his  administration  of  the  latter  office,  the  impartiality  of  his  conduct  won 
the  approval  of  very  many,  even  among  those  who  had  previously  been  opposed 
to  him. 

During  the  terrible  epidemics  of  cholera  and  of  yellow  fever,  he  was  one  of 
the  few  physicians  who  remained  st  his  post,  and  was  on  duty  night  and  clay 
for  weeks. 

He  made  many  friends  in  the  city  through  his  devotion  to  his  patients,  and  in 
more  than  one  case' he  took  to  his  owu  rooms  some  northern  man,  although  an 
entire  stranger,  and  faithfully  cared  for  him. 

In  November,  1871,  he  removed  to  Hartford,  Conn.,  where  he  held  positions 
of  trust.  For  several  years  he  was  surgeon  of  the  1st  Regiment  National  Guards, 
examiner  for  the  Soldier's  Home,  and  a  member  of  the  pension  examining  board. 
He  was  also  a  member  of  the  Hartford  Medical  Society,  and  from  May,  1S74, 
he  was  attending  physician  at  the  American  Asylum  for  the  Deaf  and  Dumb. 
He  endeared  himself' to  the  pupils  of  this  institution  by  his  affectionate  interest 
in  their  welfare. 

In  his  profession  he  was  an  enthusiast,  and  seemed  specially  gifted  for  a  sur- 
geon and  physician.  He  had  trained  himself  to  use  either  hand  indifferently, 
had  quick  powers  of  observation,  fertility  of  resource,  great  decision  and  reso- 
lution, and  keen  sympathies.  His  iron  will  led  him  to  persist  in  accomplishing 
whatever  he  undertook,  and  his  courage  and  genial  humor  inspired  confidence 
and  cheer  among  his  patieuts. 

f>  Notwithstanding  his  strength  of  character  and  of  body  he  had  an  extremely 
sensitive  organization,  and  his  interest  and  anxiety  for  his  patients  told  upon 
him. 

He  took  great  delight  in  standard  literature,  and  "  his  intellectual  hunger 
seemingly  was  never  satisfied."  He  was  especially  interested  in  military  history 
and  the  events  of  our  late  war  were  vividly  present  to  his  mind.  He  had  a 
deeply  religious  nature  and  thought  much  and  spoke  often  of  the  claims  of  duty 
and  of  the  future  life. 

Overwork,  with  little  change  of  scene  or  relaxation,  wore  upon  him,  and  he 
died  at  Hartford,  February  23,  1893. 

Dr.  Avery  was  twice  married,  first  in  1872  to  Lydia  L.  Shipman,  of  Jewett 
City,  Conn.,  and  second  in  18S4  to  Elizabeth  P.  "Keep,  of  Hartford,  Conn., 
who,  with  his  four  daughters,  survives  him. 

By  Francis  E.  Blake,  Esq.,  of  Boston. 

Abraham  Avery,  A.M.,  a  life  member,  elected  March  1,  1865,  was  bom  in 
Wilbraham,  Mass.,  Nov.  15,  1824.  He  was  the  son  of  Abraham  and  Elizabeth 
(Bliss)  Avery,  and  was  the  fourth  to  bear  the  name. 

For  many  "years  he  was  a  member  of  the  well-known  firm  of  Rand.  Avery  & 
Co.,  printers  and  publishers,  Boston,  from  which  he  retired  in  1877.  He  was 
a  man  of  excellent  judgment  and  decided  opinions,  but  retiring  in  his  habits, 
exhibiting  a  quiet  dignity  of  manner  and  courteous  and  kindly  in  his  bearing. 
He  never'entered  public  "life,  his  tastes  being  for  literary  pursuits.  The  degree 
of  Master  of  Arts  was  conferred  upon  him  by  Wesleyan  University  in  1879. 

He  married  Nov.  19,  1851,  Margaret  Cook,  daughter  of  William  S.  and  Mar- 
garet Camp  of  Middletown,  Conn.,  by  whom  he  had  three  children,  two 
daughters  surviving  him.     His  death  occurred  in  Boston  April  3,  1893. 

By  Francis  E.  Blake,  Esq.,  of  Boston. 


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Rev.  Charles  Morris  Blake,  A.M.,  M.D.,  of  San  Francisco,  Cal.,  a  cor- 
responding member,  elected  Jan.  7,  18S0,  was  born  December  24.  1819,  in 
Brewer,  now  Holden,  Maine,  lie  was  the  son  of  Charles6  and  Mary  (Winches- 
ter) Blake,  and  descended  from  William1  Blake,  of  Dorchester,  through  Ed- 
ward,2 Jonathan,3  John,4  John.* 

He  graduated  at  Bowdoin  College  in  1842,  and  at  Jefferson  Medical  College 
in  1845.  He  studied  theology  under  Dr.  Albeit  Barnes,  and  in  1853  was  ordained 
a  Presbyterian  minister  at  Valparaiso.  Chili,  where,  for  several  years,  he  was 
pastor  and  preacher  to  the  Scotch  miners.  In  1S49  he  went  to  California,  and 
from  1851  to  1857  was  the  editor  of  the  Pacific  News  in  San  Francisco.  He 
received  the  degree  of  M.D.  from  the  University  of  California  in  1876. 

Upon  the  breaking  out  of  the  war  in  1861  he  offered  his  services  to  his  country 
and  was  commissioned  chaplain  of  the  United  States  Volunteers,  in  August  of 
that  year.  In  July,  18G3,  he  received  a  commission  as  captain  of  the  3d  United 
States  Colored  Troops,  and  at  the  siege  of  Fort  Wagner  was  wounded  in  the 
head,  from  the  effects  of  which  he  suffered  the  remainder  of  his  life.  Later  he 
again  served  as  chaplain  at  various  hospitals  and  posts,  a  greater  part  of  the 
time  being  on  the  frontier. 

In  1882  he  became  a  resident  of  San  Francisco,  where  he  died  June  3,  1893. 

Mr.  Blake  had  a  life  of  varied  experience.  He  was  a  man  of  energy  and  ac- 
tivity, of  genial  nature,  easy  and  fluent  in  conversation,  and  a  cultivated  Chris- 
tian gentleman.  For  many  years  he  was  much  interested  in  genealogy,  freely 
expending  money  and  labor  in  tracing  the  lineage,  not  only  of  the  Blakes,  but 
also  of  other  families  in  which  he  was  specially  interested — Winchester,  Dupee, 
Farrington,  &c.  To  him  belongs  the  credit  of  making  known  the  existence  of 
the  records  of  the  baptism  aud  marriage  of  William  Blake  the  emigrant  to  New 
England  about  1636,  which  were  found  at  Pitminster  parish,  Somerset  County, 
England. 

Mr.  Blake  married  August  IS,  1844,  Charlotte  A.  Farrington.  Of  his  five 
children  two  only  survive,  Charles  E.  Blake  aud  Charlotte  A.  Brown,  both  of 
them  physicians  in  San  Francisco. 

By  Francis  E.  Blake,  Esq.,  of  Boston. 

John  Farwell  Anderson,  Esq.,  of  Portland,  Maine,  a  resident  member, 
elected  May  3,  1876,  was  born  at  Portland,  July  22,  1823;  died  in  that  city  Dec. 

25,  1887,  aged  64.     For  a  memoir  and  portrait  see  Register,  vol.43,  pp.  131-32. 
The  memoir  was  reprinted  as  a  pamphlet. 

Hon.  Samuel  Turell  Armstrong  of  Boston,  Mass.,  a  resident  member, 
elected  April  15,  1845,  born  at  Dorchester,  April  29,  1784,  died  at  Boston,  March 

26,  1850,  aged  65.     For  a  memoir  see  Memorial  Biographies,  vol.  1,  pp.  232-6. 
For  a  memoir  with  portrait  see  Register,  vol.  44,  pp.  137-41. 

Hon.  Frederick  Billings,  LL.D.,  of  Woodstock,  Vt.,  a  resident  member, 
elected  October  3,  1888,  born  at  Royalton,  Vt.,  Sept.  27,  1823,  died  at  Wood- 
stock, Vt.,  Sept.  30,  1890,  aged  67.  For  a  memoir  and  portrait  see  Register, 
vol.  45,  pp.  259-67.     Reprinted  as  a  pamphlet. 

Jeremiah  Colburn,  A.  M.,  of  Brookline,  Mass.,  a  life  member,  elected  Nov. 
4,  1857,  born  at  Boston  Jan.  12,  1815,  died  at  Boston  Dec.  30,  1891,  aged  76. 
His  father,  Calvin  Colburn,  was  born  at  Leominister,  Mass.,  Feb.  20,  1773,  and 
died  at  Boston,  Feb.  14,  1834,  aged  61.  His  mother,  whose  maiden  name  was 
Catharine  Sybil  Lakin,  was  born  at  Groton,  Mass.,  May  20,  1780,  and  died  at 
Grotou  Jan.  15,  1858.  aged  77-  For  a  memoir  and  portrait  see  Register,  vol. 
47,  pp.  425-33.     Memoir  reprinted  as  a  pamphlet. 

Samuel  Page  Fowler,  Esq.,  of  Danvers,  Mass.,  a  resident  member,  elected 
June  4,  1862,  was  born  in  that  town  April  22,  1800,  and  died  there  Dec.  15,  1S88, 
aged  88  years.  For  a  memoir  and  portrait  see  Register,  vol.  46,  pp.  339-45. 
Reprinted  as  a  pamphlet. 

Hon.  John  Plumer  Healy,  LL.D.,  of  Boston,  a  resident  member,  elected 
Nov.  3,  1852;  was  born  at  Washington,  N.H.,  Dec.  28,  1810.  and  died  in  Boston 
Mass.,  Jan.  4,  1882,  aged  71  years.  For  a  biographical  sketch  see  Register, 
vol.  36,  page  338 ;  and  for  a  memoir  and  portrait  see  Register,  vol.  4G,  pp.  207- 
210. 


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Rev.  Thomas  Ricker  Lambert.  D.D.,  of  Boston,  a  life  member,  was  born  at 
South  Berwick.  Me.,  July  2,  1809,  and  died  at  Boston  Feb.  4,  1892.  For  a 
memoir  and  portrait  see  Register,  vol.  47,  pp.  293-96. 

William  Hekry  Montague,  Esq.,  a  resident  member,  one  of  the  fire  original 
members  or  founders  of  the  Society,  which  was  fully  organized  by  the  choice  of 
officers  January  7,  1845.  He  was  born  at  Granby,  Mass.,  Feb.  29,  1804,  and 
died  at  Boston,"  Mass.,  May  15,  18S9,  aged  85  years.  A  portrait  and  memoir  was 
published  iu  the  Register,  vol.  44,  pp.  341-52,  and  reprinted  in  pamphlet  form. 

Rev.  Euas  Nason,  A.M.,  of  Xorth  Billerica,  Mass.,  a  life  member,  elected 
January  5,  1848,  was  born  at  Wrentham,  Mass.,  April  21,  1811,  and  died  in 
North  Billerica,  Mass.,  June  17,  1877,  aged  66.  A  memoir,  with  portrait,  was 
published  iu  the  Register,  Vol.  43,  pp.  9-34,  and  was  reprinted  in  pamphlet 
form. 

Ira  Ballou  Peck,  Esq.,  of  Woonsocket,  R.  I.,  a  life  member,  elected  March 
2,  1853,  was  born  at  Wrentham,  Mass.,  February  12,  1805,  and  died  at  Woon- 
socket June  27,  1888,  ajred  83.  A  memoir  aud  portrait  were  published  in  the 
Register,  Vol.  43,  pp.  237-42. 

Samuel  Baker  Rindge,  Esq.,  of  Cambridge,  Mass.,  a  life  member,  elected 
February  2,  1870,  was  born  at  East  Cambridge,  Dec.  26,  1820,  and  died  at  Cam- 
bridge, May  3,  1S83,  aged  62.  For  memoir  and  portrait  see  Register,  Vol.  45, 
pp.  3-7. 

Nathaniel  Foster  Safford,  Esq.,  of  Milton,  Mass.,  a  life  member,  elected 
September  3.  1873,  was  born  at  Salem,  Mass.,  September  19,  1815,  and  died  at 
Milton,  April  22,  1891,  aged  75.  For  memoir  and  portrait  see  Register,  Vol.  47, 
pp.  9-19.     The  memoir  was  reprinted  in  pamphlet  form. 

Rev.  Increase  Niles  Tarbox,  D.D.,  of  Newton,  Mass.,  a  resident  member, 
elecied  January  7,  1863,  was  born  at  East  Windsor,  Ct.,  on  Saturday,  February 
11,  1815,  and  died  at  Newton,  May  3.  1888,  ased  73.  For  memoir  and  portrait 
see  Register,  Vol.  44,  pp.  9  to  23.     The  memoir  was  reprinted. 

William  Fletcher  Weld,  Esq.,  of  Boston,  Mass.,  a  life  member,  elected 
June  I,  1870,  was  born  at  Rosbury,  Mass.,  April  15,  1800,  and  died  at  Philadel- 
phia, Pa.,  November  30,  1881,  aged  81.  For  memoir  and  portrait  see  Register, 
Vol.  45,  pp.  115-117. 

Henry  Austin  Whitney,  A.M.,  of  Boston,  Mass.,  a  life  member,  elected 
February  6,  1856,  was  born  at  Boston,  October  6.  1826,  and  died  at  Boston,  Fel- 
ruary  21,  1889,  aged  62.  For  memoir  and  portrait  see  Register,  Vol.  45,  pp. 
175-186.     The  memoir  was  reprinted. 

Cyrus  Woodman,  A.M.,  of  Cambridge,  Mass.,.  a  life  member,  elected  Jan- 
uary 2,  1867,  was  born  at  Buxton,  Maine,  June  2,  1814,  died  at  Cambridge, 
March  30,  1889,  aged  74.  For  memoir  and  portrait  see  Register,  Vol.  43,  pp. 
345-349. 


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Family-Histories  and  Genealogies,  a  Series  of  Genealogical  and  Biographical 
Jlnnnyraphs  on  the  Families  of  MacCardy,  Mitchell.  Lord,  Lynde,  Digl'j,  New- 
digate,  lino,  Willoughby,  Griswnld,  Wolcott,  Pitkin,  Ogden,  Johnson,  Diodati, 
Lee,  U,cke,  Cole,  DeWolf,  Drake,  Bond  and  Sinnyne,  Dunhar  and  Clarke,  and 
a  Notice  of  Chief  Justice"  Morrison  Remick  Waite.  With  23  Pedisree-Charts 
and  2  Charts  of  Combined  De-cents.  In  three  volumes.  By  Edward  El- 
bridge  Salisbury  and  Evelyn  McCurdy  Salisbury.     1892.     Privately 


90  _  Booh  Notices.  [Jan. 

Printed.  (Press  of  Tuttle,  Morehouse  &  Taylor,  New  Haven") .  Vol.  I., 
Parts  I.  and  II.,  xli.,  xxvi.,  721  pp.;  Vol.  II.,  xvi.,  503pp.;  III.,  x.,  312 
pp.;  Vol.  III.,  Supplement  Charts. 

It  mar  safely  be  claimed,  in  behalf  of  antiquarian  research,  that  there  is  no 
nobler  field  for  literary  labor  than  that  in  which  is  gleaned  and  recorded— either 
in  the  form  of  Biography,  Genealogy,  or  History— the  true  nobility  of  a  worthy 
ancestry.  Out  of  this  field,  in  the  beginning  of  the  last  year,  liave  come  to 
us  two  works  of  such  considerable  size  and  value  as  to  render  them  somewhat 
phenomenal  contributions  to  the  annals  of  the  Colony  and  State  of  Connecticut. 
We  refer  to  Dr.  Stiles'  Revised  Edition  of  the  History  and  Genealogies  of  Ancient 
Windsor*  and  to  Prof,  and  Mrs.  Salisbury's  Family -Histories  and  Genealogies, 
connected  mostly  with  the  old  town  of  Lyme,  Conn. 

Both  of  these  towns— Windsor  at  the  head  of  navigation  on  the  Connecticut 
Piver,  and  Lyme  (then  a  part  of  Saybrook)  near  to  its  mouth,  upon  the  seaboard- 
were  of  nearly  the  same  date  of  settlement;  both  were  peculiarly  rich  in  the 
inheritance  of  that  "best  blood"  (middle-class),  which  gave  and  "still  gives  to 
Old  England  its  stalwart  strength  among  the  nations  of  the  earth:  both  were 
"  mother-towns,"  sending  forth  colony  after  colony  into  the  wilderness  beyond 
them;  and  of  both  it  may  be  said,  even  to  the  present  day,  that  they  are  abund- 
antly honored  in  their  children  in  this  fair  land.  Consequently,  the  simultaneous 
appearance  of  two  such  works  as  those  above-mentioned  is  an  event  of  no  small 
iuterest,  not  only  to  the  many  whose  descent  is  derived  from  these  two  towns, 
but  as  strongly  indicative  of  that  wider  appreciation  of  the  value  of  such  books 
which  now  obtains  in  the  present  generation  of  Americans. 

It  is,  however,  more  particularly  of  Prof,  and  Mrs.  Salisbury's  remarkable 
volumes  that  we  wish  to  speak,  in  the  present  instance;  since,  both  as  regards 
their  extent,  accuracy,  minute  and  loving  detail  and  charming  literary  style,  no 
less  than  for  the  superb  luxuriousness  of  their  mechanical  make-up!  they  are, 
in  every  respect,  remarkable.  The  rive  quarto  volumes  under  present  notice 
may  be  considered  as  supplementary  to  the  two  volumes  of  a  similar  character 
printed  by  Prof.  Salisbury  in  1885,  and  which  dealt  chiefly  with  the  irenealosical 
lines  of  his  own  descent.  Together  they  present  a  most  remarkable  instance  of 
similarity  of  tastes  and  of  felicitous  literary  co-operation  between  man  and 
Wife;  and  irresistibly  suggest  the  wish  that  the  same  loving  hands  may,  in  due 
course  of  time,  present  us  with  a  History  of  Lyme,  Ct.,  for  which,  indeed,  these 
volumes  seem  to  form  a  natural  ground-work  and  preparation. 

The  wish  to  which  Ave  have  thus  given  expression,  and  which  we  are  sure 
will  be  echoed  by  all  who  consult  these  volumes,  is  greatly  stimulated  by  the 
very  appetizing  Preface  and  "  Introductory  Notes  on  Lyme","  in  the  first  volume 
of  these  Family-Histories.  In  this  the  author  aptly  remarks  that  "  No  one  can 
ever  know  how  much  of  heroic  struggle  and  devotion  to  duty  and  affection,  in 
the  lives  of  the  settlers  of  our  old  towns,  has  been  hidden  and  lost  in  the  lapse 
of  time.  'They  had  no  poet,  and  died.'"  True!  they  "had  no  poet"  then; 
but  in  these  latter  days  the  Lord  hath  raised  up  these  "  veracious  chroniclers," 
who  have  saved  their  memories  to  us  and  to  our  children,  for  our  edification  and 
strengthening.  And  every  page  of  these  Genealogies  furnishes  absolute  proof 
of  the  fitness  of  the  same  chroniclers  to  give  us  a  history  of  this  grand  old  Con- 
necticut town. 

In  the  MacCurdy,  Mitchell,  Buchanan  genealogies  we  are  treated  to  ^omemost 
delightful  glimpses  of  the  characteristics  of  the  Scotch  and  Scotch-Irish  race, 
whose  successive  immigrations  (beginning  about  1720),  into  America  brought  to 
our  colonial  era  a  new  accession  of  back-bone,  and  a  little  later  added  to  the 
establishing  of  our  newly-won  liberties  "  the  creed,  the  spirit  of  re>i~tance  and 
the  courage  of  the  Covenanters,"  fully  justifying  Lord  Montjoy's  remark  (in 
1784)  that  "  America  was  lost  to  the  English  Crown  by  Irish  emigrants." 

John  McCurdy.  of  a  family  once  prominent  in  the  Isles  of  Bute,  in  the  West 
of  Scotland,  emigrated  (a?.  21)  in  1745,  from  Ireland;  settled  at  Lyme  in  1752, 
and  married  Anne  Lord,  whose  decision  of  character  over-ruled  the  very  natural 
disfavor  with  which  her  father  regarded  her  Irish  lover.  A  man  of  great  public 
spirit,  enterprise  and  benevolence,  an  active  patriot  in  the  Revolution.  McCurdy 
became  one  of  the  wealthiest  and  most  prominent  citizens  of  his  county.     A 

•  The  History  ;ind  Genealogies  of  Ancient  Windsor,  Connecticut,  1G35-1S9I.  Br  Henry 
E.  Stiles,  A.M.,  M.D Hartford,  Conn.,  1892.    2  vols,  royal  octavo. 


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stout  Presbyterian  and  "  always  catfechising  his  family  on  Sunday  night,  he  was 
wont  to  include  his  daughters'  suitors,  whose  visits  were  at  the  usual  courting- 
time  of  the  period.  This  practice  could  have  given  little  alarm  to  young  men 
already  well  drilled  in  the  Catechism ;  but  we  can  think  of  nothing  which  would 
more  effeatually  disperse  the  lovers  of  the  present  day !  "  These  daughters, 
educated  at  New  York  and  Philadelphia,  were  ladies  of  elegance  and  dignity, 
yet  well  versed  in  all  practical  details  of  housewifery.  They  had  great  beauty. 
One  of  them  married  the  famous  Rev.  Dr.  Nathan  Strong  of  Hartford;  another 
was  the  wife  of  Rev.  Henry  Chauning  of  New  London,  whose  nephew  William 
Ellery  Channing  was  taken  into  his'house  after  the  death  of  his  father,  and 
from" there  sent  to  Harvard  College  at  the  expense  of  bis  aunt  Sarah  (McCurdy) 
Channing,  who  had  inherited  a  large  estate  from  her  father.  Another  daughter 
of  Mr.  McCurdy,  wife  of  Capt.  Elisha  Hart,  was  the  mother  of  seven  daughters 
known  as  "  the  beautiful  Miss  Harts,"  one  of  whom  was  the  wife  of  Commodore 
Isaac  Hull.  The  biography  of  Judge  Charles  Johnson  McCurdy,  in  this  mono- 
graph, is  a  carefully  considered  and  most  felicitous  tribute  of  filial  affection 
from  the  pen  of  bis  daughter  Mrs.  Salisbury. 

The  Mitchell  family  of  Chester,  Conn,  (descendants  of  William  of  Glasgow 
and  Agnes  Buchanan  his  wife,  settlers  of  1755)  derived  from  an  ancestry  which 
suffered  much  for  conscience-sake  in  Scotland ;  while  Asmes  Buchanan  was  an 
aunt  of  the  Rev.  Claudius  Buchanan,  the  eminent  Scottish  missionary  to  India. 
This  William  Mitchell  was  a  brother  of  James  Mitchell  of  Wethersfield,  Conn., 
who  was  the  father  of  Chief  Justice  Stephen  Mix  Mitchell,  and  great-grand- 
father of  Donald  Grant  Mitchell,  the  author. 

Among  the  families  commemorated  in  these  volumes  is  a  group  of  disting- 
uished English  origin,  namely  :  Dishy,  from  Elizabeth  Digby,  granddaughter 
of  Simon  Digby  of~Bedale,  executed  for  high  treason  iu  the  reign  of  Elizabeth, 
and  a  near  relative  of  John  Digby  first  earl  of  Bristol;  Willoughby,  from 
Deputy-Governor  Francis  Willoughby,  who  settled  in  Charlestown,  Mass.,  in 
163S;  Newdigate,  from  John  Newdigate,  settled  in  Boston  1632;  Ogden,  from 
John  Ogden.  the  pioneer  settler  of  Elizabeth,  New  Jersey  ;  Marvin,  from  Reinold 
Marvin  of  Lyme;  Clarke,  from  Hon.  Daniel  Clarke  of  Windsor,  Conn.,  and  his 
brothers;  Lord,  from  Thomas  Lord  of  Hartford,  1*335;  Pitkin,  from  William 
Pitkin  of  East  Hartford;  Locke,  Cole,  Bond,  Swayne,  Lee,  Drake,  Griswold 
and  Wolcott,  most  of  them  from  well-known  heraldic  families  of  landed  proprie- 
tors in  England.  The  three  last-named  families  have  also  received  new  exami- 
nation and  enlargement  in  Dr.  Stiles's  Windsor  History;  and  may  well  congratu- 
late themselves  that  they  have  been  thus  simultaneously  and  so  thoroughly,  ex- 
ploited from  two  such  competent  sources  of  authority.  In  regard  to  the  English 
connections  of  the  Griswold  and  Drake  emigrant  ancestors,  both  these  authori- 
ties seem,  in  the  main,  to  asree;  though  the  Salisbury  book  presents  for  the 
Drake  ancestry  a  stronger  claim  of  direct  social  distinction  in  England  than  is, 
perhaps,  claimed  for  it  in  the  Windsor  book.  While  we  have  no  absolute  infor- 
mation as  to  the  social  position  and  pecuniary  means  of  John  Drake,  the  emi- 
grant in  England,  our  best  assurance  that  he  possessed  both  is  to  be  found, 
perhaps,  in  the  fact  that,  in  the  little  Windsor  coilimunity — thoroughly  imbued, 
as  it  must  have  been  in  that  generation,  with  respect  for  social  position  a^d  rank. 
as  it  existed  in  the  land  of  their  birth* — John  Drake  seems  to  have  been  an  hon- 
ored citizen,  with  good  means  for  the  period;  and  his  son  Job,  a  shoemaker,t 

•  The  line  of  descent  of  John  Drake  of  Windsor,  Connecticut,  given  in  Dr.  Stiles's  His- 
tory of  Windsor,  is  identically  the  same  as  that  given  in  the  Salisbury  book,  but  in  the 
latter  it  is  amplified.  The  Plantagenet  descent  of  John  Dr;ike  is  given,  and  the  marriages 
of  these  Drakes  with  the  Grcnville  or  Granville,  Prideaux,  Champernon,  Gilbert,  Deny, 
Raleigh,  Fortescue,  the  Duke  of  Marlborough  and  many  other  ancient  families  and  per-ons 
of  distinction  are  mentioned.  John  Drakeof  Windsor  was  great  nephew  of  Queen  Eliza- 
beth's famous  commander  Sir  Bernard  Drake  ;  and  he  was  related  to  many  other  of  her  moat 
distinguished  naval  and  rnilitarv  men.  The  pedigrees  used  were  furnished  to  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Salisbury  by  Sir  William  Richard  Drake  and  Rev.  W.  T.  Tyrwhitt  Drake,  present  repre- 
sentatives of  the  family  in  England,  the  latter  of  whom  wrote :  "  It  will  give  me  great  pleas- 
ure to  be  useful  in  the  genealogy  of  the  American  branch  of  the  family." 

t  It  is  well  known  that  in  the*  time  of  the  early  generations  of  the  settlers  there  was  little 
call  for  the  learned  professions,  except  that  of  the  ministry,  while  there  was  a  constant  de- 
mand tor  the  various  trades  which  sustain  social  life.  Many  of  the  settlers,  previ<ni>!y  un- 
used to  handicrafts,  learned  them  before  they  came  over,  to  n't  themselves  for  the  necessities 
of  their  new  conditions  as  colonists.  Others  were  obliged  to  learn  them  here.  The  Drakes 
ranked  with  the  best  Windsor  families. 


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esteemed  a  worthy  husband  for  the  daughter  of  Mr.  Henry  Wolcott,  who  was 
Windsor's  most  eminent  and  wealthiest  man. 

We  have,  also,  in  these  Family-Histories,  a  most  interesting  group  of  families 
of  European  Continental  origin,  such  as  Diodati  —  (Deus  dedit),  a  hisjh  family 
tracing  back  through  English  and  Swiss  lines  to  the  Italy  of  the  Middle  Ages  — 
and  first  in  America  in  1715  or  1717;  Jfei, of  the  Mei  family  of  Lucca;  De  Wolf,* 
from  Balthazar  of  Wethersfield,  Ct.,  1604,  and  Lyme,  1684,  whose  child  was  "  be- 
witched to  death"  by  Nicholas  and  Margaret  Young  —  according  to  extant 
records  of  the  Particular  Court  of  Connecticut,  a  branch  of  which  family  re- 
moved from  Lyme  to  Nova  Scotia,  1760:  and  another  branch  to  Bristol,  Rhode 
Island ;  Parmciin,  since  Parmelee,  probably  of  Swiss  origin,  from  John  Parmeiin, 
a  first  settler  of  Guilford,  Ct.  1639,  who  was  of  Rev.  Whitfield's  party  from 
Counties  Surrey,  Kent,  and  Essex,  and  who  went  with  Gov.  Eaton  to  New 
Haven  ;  Lynde,  of  Dutch  origin  (probably  the  Belgic  family  of  Van  der  Linden), 
a  family  which  gave  to  Massachusetts  Colony  a  famous  succession  of  Judges 
and  Chief  Justices,  and  which  is  a  markedly  legal  family  to  the  present  day; 
Moo,  which  to  us  appears  to  be  of  Dutch  origin,  though  our  authors  credit  it 
to  an  old  English  (Saxon — locale,  Kent,)  stock  f  —  perhaps  afterwards  identical 
with  the  name  of  Mau-es,  and  Howes. 

All  these  genealogies  are  abundantly  fortified  by  notes  and  references  to 
authorities;  and  interspersed  with  such  a  delicious  infinity  of  minor  details  of 
biography,  personal  characteristics  and  antiquarian  commentary,  as  to  render 
them  of  interest  even  to  the  genera!  reader.  They  are  (Vol.  III.)  further  illustrat- 
ed by  the  twenty-nine  (folded)  Pedhiree-charts  of  the  above  named  and  other 
families  (including  two  Pedigree-charts  of  Combined  Descents),  bearing  the 
coats-of-arms  of  the  respective  families,  and  elegantly  printed  on  bank-note  paper. 
Prefixed  to  Vol.  III.',  as  a  motto,  are  these  words  of  Prof.  Goode  on  the  Scientific 
Value  of  Genealogical  Facts  :  "  The  time  is  coming  when  the  sociologist  and  the 
historian  will  make  an  extensive  use  of  the  facts  so  laboriously  and  systemati- 
cally classified  by  genealogists.'' 

Of  the  external  appearance  of  these  volumes  it  can  be  truly  said  that  they 
are  sumptuous.  With  a  personal  knowledge  of  nearly  all  of  the  many  hund"ed 
family-histories  published  in  the  United  States,  for  the  past  fifty  years  or  more 
(many  of  which  have  been  elegant  and  costly),  we  hesitate  not  to  place  these 
volumes  at  the  head  of  the  listT,  as  specimens  of  the  "  Art  Preservative"  of  all 
arts.  After  launching  upon  the  sea  of  Literature  two  such  noble  vessels  as  the 
Histories  of  18S5  and  1692,  we  may  venture  to  renew  the  expression  of  a  nope 
that  Prof,  and  Mrs  Salisbury  will  not  "  rest  upon  their  oars".  h.  k.  8. J 

The  Life  of  George  Mason,  1725-1792.  By  Kate  Mason  Rowland.  New 
York  :  G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons.  The  Knickerbocker  Press,  1892.  Two  volumes. 
8vo.     Vol.  I.  pp.  454;  Vol.  II.  pp.  527.     Price  S8. 

These  two  volumes  present  the  main  facta  in  the  career  of  an  eminent  Ameri- 
can statesman  and  patriot  of  the  Revolution.  A  Virginian  by  birth  and  train- 
ing, he  was  the  immediate  neighbor  of  Washington.  Their  estates  joined  in 
part,  and  both  fronted  on  the  river  Potomac.  They  were  friends  from  youth, 
Mason  being  seven  years  the  elder.  There  was  a  bond  of  sympathy  between 
them  in  respect  to  social  position  aud  business  activities,  and  also  in  principles 
of  conduct  and  standards  of  life.     In  the  inception  and  prosecution  of  the  war 

•A  William  de  Wolve  was  witness  to  a  deed  in  England  in  1066.  Arms  are  given,  by 
Burke,  to  a  De  Wolfe  family  in  England.  Beithazar  De  Wolf  established  himself  with  the 
early  English  settlers  in  Lyme,  wrote  a  good  English  hand,  and  took  part  with  them  in 
town  affairs  as  one  of  them.  There  is  no  evidence  that  his  family  were  of  recent  foreign 
oriein.  though  some  of  his  descendants  have  that  impression. 

fThe  Saxon  family  of  Hoo,  described  in  "  Family-Histories  and  Genealogies,"  which  settled 
in  Kent,  are  traced  from  the  time  of  Henry  I.  In  the  reign  of  Henry  III.  they  are  men- 
tioned as  seated  in  Suffolk;  in  1286,  in  Bedfordshire.  In  1292  Robert  de  Hoo,  the  supposed 
ancestor  of  the  Hoos  in  this  work,  who  married  Beatrix  daughter  of  Alexander  Earl  of  An- 
derville  in  Normandy,  held  lands  in  Herts.,  Bedford,  Cambridge  and  Oxford.  His  grand- 
son, Sir  Thomas  de  Hoo,  through  his  wife  the  heiress  of  John  Lord  de  St.  Leaer,  held 
large  estates  in  Sussex,  Northarnptonrhire  and  Herts.  He  was  followed  by  a  succes- 
sion of  descendants  who  held  large  possessions  in  many  counties,  including  Norfolk  and 
Suffolk.  In  the  iine  of  the  Suffolk  branch  descended  Joa?\c  Hoo,  the  mother  of  John  >'e\v- 
digate  of  Boston. 
t  The  foot-notes  are  by  another  hand. 


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of  the  Revolution  they  were  in  full  accord,  and  while  they  were  at  variance 
politically  late  in  Mason's  life,  as  to  the  adoption  of  the  Federal  constitution, 
this  circumstance  did  not  disturb  their  amicable  social  relations.  Mason's  Vir- 
ginian contemporaries  in  public  affairs,  seemingly  without  exception,  have  borne 
testimony  to  his  excellence  in  those  qualities  which  make  up  the  ideal  of  a 
statesman;  to  5ns  learning,  and  his  zeal  and  fidelity  in  the  public  cause.  He  is 
known  in  the  record  distinctively  as  "George  Mason  of  Gunston,"  or,  some- 
times, more  specifically,  "of  Gunston  Hall,"  the  one  appellation  being  that  of 
the  estate  and  the  other  that  of  the  mansion  where  he  dwelt.  "  The  loss  of  many 
manuscripts,  letters,  and,  in  some  instances,  public  records  by  fire,  or  other- 
wise, has  prevented  the  preparation  of  what,  in  strictness,  might  be  called  a 
complete  biography  of  him.  But  diligence  and  friendly  zeal  have  rescued  much 
in  the  way  of  data" that  is  perfectly  authentic  and  clearly  adequate  for  the  proper 
llmnujg  of  his  character  and  life  work,  and  thus,  in  the  hands  of  his  present 
biographer,  he  has  been  made  to  appear  to  this  and  the  succeeding  generations 
n  distinct  and  impressive  historical  figure.  The  volumes  bear  evidence  that  the 
search  has  been  thorough,  and  there  appears  to  be  no  reason  to  suppose  that 
anything  important  can  ever  be  added.  For  this  reason,  and  because  of  their 
litcrarv  merit  arid  general  historical  instruct!  veness,  they  will  have  rank  in  their 
propel  category  iii  American  standard  literature. 

Considerable  space  is  given  in  the  first  volume  to  the  ancestry  of  the  subject, 
whose  great-grandfather  was  also  George  Mason,  a  colonel  in  the  army  of  the 
king  at  the  battle  of  Worcester.  That  defeat  prompted  Mason's  flight  to 
America.  In  Virginia  the  heads  of  the  family,  from  the  beginning,  appear  to 
have  been  men  of  large  proprietorship  in  land,  and  in  each  generation  were 
public  characters  in  the  councils  of  peace  or  wrar.  The  first  George  Mason  was 
manifestly  a  sturdy  monarchist.'  His  descendant  of  the  fourth  generation  was 
not  less  distinctively  a  republican  in  his  political  doctrines  and  theories,  and,  as 
the  narrative  shows,  became  a  republican  in  action  and  eventually  one  in  the 
party  sense.  He  is  described  in  his  early  manhood  as  a  planter  and  philosopher, 
a  recluse  rather  than  a  politician,  and  as  having  reluctantly  gone  into  the  public 
arena.  He  had,  for  the  period  and  the  situation,  an  extensive  library,  in  which 
among  the  works  mentioned  were  those  of  Locke,  Sydney,  Montesquieu, 
Machiavelli  and  Junius.  The  presence  of  others  of  the  great  doctrinaires  may 
be  inferred.  He  was  not  a  man  to  buy  books  for  the  mere  ornamentation  of 
his  rooms,  and,  therefore,  when  the  political  crisis  approached,  was  duly  pre- 
pared to  become,  what  he  is  described  to  have  been,  "  the  pen  of  the  Revolution 
in  Virginia." 

Another  phrase  of  panegyric  applied  to  him,  and  deservedly,  was  "  the  Con- 
stitution maker."  The  Virginia  bill  of  rights  and  the  first  draft  for  a  constitu- 
tion of  the  State  (which  latter  was  but  slightly  modified  by  the  convention), 
were  unquestionably  of  his  authorship.  The  bill  of  rights  was  written  by  him 
probably  earlier  than  May  17,  and  certainly  earlier  than  May  27,  177G.  In  either 
case  it  antedates  all  others  in  the  history  of  the  United  States.  .Tefl'erson  in  the 
Declaration  of  Independence  repeated  its  cardinal  maxims  and  adopted  many  of 
its  phrases.  That  the  Massachusetts  bill  of  rights  is  framed  upon  the  model 
of  that  of  Virginia  is  the  statement  of  Bancroft,  the  historian;  and  Mason 
himself,  in  enclosing,  in  1778,  a  copy  to  a  friend  in  London,  avows  the  author- 
ship and  remarks,  "  This  was  the  first  thing  of  the  kind  upon  the  continent,  and 
has  been  closely  imitated  by  all  the  States."  It  has  been  continued  without 
change  at  the  head  of  each  of  the  three  Constitutions  which  Virginia  has 
adopted.  The  original  constitution  is  also  preferred,  at  this  day,  by  many  Vir- 
ginians, to  either  of  its  successors.  When  the  first  revision  was  made  by  a 
conception  in  1829  John  Randolph  of  Roanoke,  a  delegate,  appeared  in  each 
day's  session  with  crape  on  his  hat  and  sleeves,  "in  mourning,"  as  he  said, 
"  for  the  old  constitution." 

In  the  Convention  of  1776  which  adopted  that  constitution  Mason  was  the 
master,  spirit,  though  Patrick  Henry  is  to  be  reckoned  in  many  respects  his 
P«'er.  Madison,  who  was  also  a  member,  was  then  but  25  years  of  age.  In 
pome  sense  Mason  was  hi  the  public  service  of  Virginia,  as  member  of  the 
Iveirislature  or  otherwise,  during  the  interval  between  that  date  and  the  assem- 
bling #f  the  Federal  constitutional  convention  in  1787.  In  becoming  a  member 
of  tir.s  letter  body  he  found  himself  to  be,  as  he  distinctly  intimates,  in  a  com- 
pany of  luminaries.  In  a  letter  written  soon  after  the  opening  of  the  sessions, 
vol.   xLvm.  9 


94  Booh  Notices.  [Jan. 

bo  P.iys,  "  America  has  certainly,  upon  this  occasion,  drawn  forth  her  flrst  char- 
acter's ;  there  are  upon  this  convention  many  gentlemen  of  the  most  respectable 
abilities,  and,  so  far  as  I  can  discover,  of  the  purest  intentions."  The  word 
"  respectable"  as  thus  used  had,  at  that  date,  as  is  well  known,  a  stronger  sig- 
nificance than  present  usasce  £;ives  it,  and  the  phrase  has  all  the  force  of  that 
preceding,  "  first  characters."  It  is  manifest  not  only  that  Mason  had  great 
weight  In  the  convention,  but  that  he  went  hand  in  hand,  cordially,  with  the 
majority  till  near  the  end  of  the  proceedings,  and  was  as  much  a  :'  Federalist"' 
as  any.  Certain  changes  made  in  the  constitution  in  the  closing  stage  aroused 
his  opposition,  which  he  never  afterwards  forebore;  and  he  was  oue  of  the 
three  delegates  in  the  convention  who  refused  to  sign  the  document  when  finally 
engrossed. 

This  opposition  was  nominally  a  defence  of  "state  rights,"  and  the  matter 
is  so  set  forth  in  the  biography."  The  author  is  at  some  pains  to  show  that  the 
political  principles  herein  avowed  by  Mason  were  identical  with  those  with 
which  the  secessionists  entered  upon  the  war  in  1861.  She  goes  farther  and 
ranks  many  of  the  leading  Virginians  of  1787  in  the  same  category  with  Jenvr- 
son  Davis  and  his  coadjutors,  naming  especially  Mason.  Henry,  R,  H.  Lee,  Jef- 
ferson and  Madisou.  While  it  is  admitted  that  in  1787,  and  later,  Madison  was 
a  Federalist,  it  is  claimed  that  eventually  he  took  the  side  of  state  rights.  This 
phrase  "  state  rights1'  is  used,  however,  in  a  broader  than  the  literal  sense,  and 
in  one  connection  the  author  supplements  it  with  another  which  brings  out 
nearly  the  full  meaning,  where  she  speaks  of  certain  words  of  the  constitution 
as  having  been  perverted  to  serve  "  as  an  argument  against  state  rights  and  the 
doctrine  "of  secession."  While  in  the  formal  declarations  of  the  leaders  of 
secession  and  in  certain  utterances  and  writings  of  the  Virginians  above  named 
there  may  be  an  identity  of  phraseology,  it  may  be  held  to  be  an  unwarrantable 
inference"  that  these  men  of  ITS",  who"  were  subject  to  a  particular  condition  of 
things  and  a  particular  set  of  apprehensions,  as  to  dangers  then  threatening, 
would  approve  the  action  of  those  who  began  war  in  18151,  surrounded  by  quite 
other  conditions  and  apprehending  perils  and  losses  of  quite  another  sort.  But 
whatever  opinions  the  reader  may"  hold  as  to  the  merits  of  the  political  con- 
troversy involved  in  the  civil  war,  the  relation  here  given  of  the  action  of 
George  Mason  and  others,  in  the  formative  period  of  the  Federal  constitution, 
is  highly  instructive,  and  will  be  helpful  in  making  clear  the  progress  of  events 
as  more  broadly  stated  in  the  pages  of  general  history. 

By  Daniel  W.  Baker,  Esq.,  of  Boston. 

Collections  of  the  Connecticut  Historical  Society,  Vol.  IV.  The  Talcott  Papers: 
Correspondence  and  Documents  (chiefly  official)  during  'Joseph  Talcotfs  Gov- 
ernorship of  Connecticut.  Vol.  I.  1724-36.  Edited  by  Mary  K.  Talcott. 
Hartford: '  Published  by  Conn.  Hist.  Soc     18'J2. 

It  is  very  unsafe  to  pronounce  any  space  of  locai  history  dull  or  unfruit- 
ful in  advance.  Connecticut  antiquarians  themselves  have  always  regarded 
the  period  after  the  elose  of  the  French-Jesuit  aggressions  early  in  the  18th 
century,  and  before  the  French  and  Indian  war,  as  little  more  than  a  time  of 
material  expansion,  with  few  salient  or  pregnant  incidents.  The  very  Society 
which  issues  this  volume  thought  it  unlikely  to  prove  of  great  importance.  It 
turns  out  to  be  of  a  great  deal,  and  of  curious  interest  and  even  novelty  in  a  variety 
of  ways.  Nowhere  can  one  gain  a  clearer  view  of  the  springs  which  swelled 
into  the  torrent  of  the  Revolution.  The  reader  winces  with  a  sense  of  personal 
humiliation  in  seeing  men  of  as  great  ability,  acuteness,  force  and  resolution  as 
any  in  England  itself,  compelled'  to  pass  their  whole  political  careers  in  dex- 
terous skulking  and  elaborate  diplomatic  "  filibustering,"  with  never  a  hope 
of  relief  in  open  defiance  or  even  sincere  objurgation.  Being  human,  rhey 
must  inwardly  have  raged  over  the  meanness,  as  they  certainly  worried  night 
and  day  over  the  insecurity,  of  the  position;  and  they  giadly  seized  the  chance 
of  ending  it.  A  mass  of"  fresh  documents  and  correspondence  on  the  famous 
"Winthrop-Lechmere  land-title  case  brings  this  into  the  clearest  relief.  The 
whole  future  of  the  colony  hinged  on  this  case;  the  first  adverse  decision,  mak- 
ing the  British  primogeniture  law  also  the  law  of  Connecticut,  would  have  been 
highly  disastrous  but  for  the  cool  and  wary  judgment,  patience  and  skill  with 
which  the  executive  of  the  colony  kept  the  intestate  estates  unsettled  for  many 
years,  or  got  them  settled  by  compromise,  in  hope  of  a  reversal ;  and  the  final 


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Booh  J\roiices.  95 


reversal  after  a  Massachusetts  case  had  been  decided  for  the  colony,  though  it 
brought  a  long  sigh  of  relief,  did  not  undo  the  alienation  of  feeling  so  long 
cankering  in  silence.  Along  the  same  line  was  the  steady  and  unfaltering,  but 
very  anxious  and  often  despondent  effort  to  keep  the  transoceanic  government 
froin  reviewiag  the  colonial  laws.  Talcort/s  correspondence  with  the  agents 
in  London  makes  one  share  bis  nervous  apprehensions  even  now;  neither  of 
them  concealed  from  themselves  the  fact  that  the  general  government  could  at 
any  moment,  and  were  quite  likely  to,  declare  the  charter  a  mere  revokable  con- 
tract. Politics  with  them  was  the  art  of  lulling  and  steering  oft*  a  perfectly 
irresistible  but  rather  clumsy  and  short-sighted  set  of  masters.  The  later  en- 
forcement of  the  navigation  laws,  which  lost  England  the  colonies,  is  plainly  pre- 
figured here.  Of  internal  matters,  much  the  most  important  and  novel  is 
the  conclusive  testimony,  in  great  mass,  that  the  Connecticut  government  and 
people  not  only  meant  honestly  to  guard  the  fair  interests  and  improve  the 
mental  and  spiritual  condition  of  the  "remnant  of  Indians,  but  that  they  worked 
strenuously  and  steadily  to  chat  end.  The  slurs  cast  on  their  good  faith  are 
wholly  undeserved;  some  scamps  sold  the  Indians  liquor,  and  others  tres- 
passed on  their  land  or  stole  their  crops,  but  the  bulk  of  the  people  were 
neither  hypocrites  nor  robbers.  Among  other  things,  the  interminable  bound- 
ary dispute  with  New  York  is  not  more  unreadable  than  the  other  writings 
on  the  STibject;  the  abortive  efforts  to  supply  the  pressing  need  of  currency 
are  interesting,  and  the  abjectly  apologetic  letter  of  the  Bishop  of  London 
to  the  Governor,  asking  that  Episcopalians  may  not  have  to  pay  taxes  to  the 
Congregational  Church,  is  curious  and  notable;  and  the  letter  of  that  village 
Machiavelli,  Capt.  James  Packer  of  New  London,  on  taking  advantage  of  Mas- 
sachusetts' "  hard  times,"  is  worth  the  price  of  the  book.  The  personal  element 
is  of  great  interest.  Talcott  himself  wins  high  respect;  not  a  man  of  surface 
brilliancy,  but  much  of  Washington's  stamp,  an  upright,  laborious,  solid,  skilf  id 
administrator,  seeking  the  best  counsel  and  able  to  profit  by  it.  Wilkes  and 
Belcher  are  what  they  are  elsewhere ;  the  former  an  honorable,  kindly,  capable 
man  of  business;  the  latter  a  coarse-natured  and  bragging  politician,  with  a 
strong  tinge  of  the  blackmailer  in  him — truculent  half-disguised  threats  are 
forever  cropping  out.  Much  of  the  most  valuable  matter  in  the  book  has  been 
gathered  by  the  editor,  Miss  Talcott.  in  addition  to  that  previously  in  possts- 
sion  of  the  Society;  and  her  extremely  thorough  and  copious  annotation  has 
added  greatly  to  its  usefulness,  making  it  intelligible  to  every  reader  without 
further  research.  Its  coming  accords  most  happily  with  the  Winthrop  Papers 
of  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society.  The  second  volume  will  be  welcomed. 
By  Forest  Morgan,  Esq.,  of  Hartford. 

History  of  the  Handel  and  Haydn   Society,  of  Boston,  Massachusetts,    Vol.  1. 

From  the  foundation  of  the.  Society  through  its  seventy-fifth  season,  1815-1890. 

Chapters,  I.-III.     By  Chaulks  C.  Peukixs.     Chapters  IV-XV.     By   John 

S.  Dwigiit.     Boston":  Alfred  Mudge  &  Son,  Printers,  18S3-1893. 

The  authors  of  this  work,  Mr.  Charles  C.  Perkins  and  Mr.  John  S.  Dwight, 
have  produced  a  carefully  written  and  valuable  addition  to  musical  literature. 
The  great  work  accomplished  by  the  Handel  and  Haydn  Society  of  Boston  is 
well  known  and  recognized.  The  members  love  mu>ic  not  only  for  its  own 
sake,  but  for  the  great  good  that  it  can  do  in  ennobling  and  uplifting  human 
nature,  and  ever  strive  to  give  the  best  work  of  the  great  composers  to  the 
public,  knowing  that  to  be  the  best  way  to  elevate  the  public  taste. 

The  following  passage  from  "  Luther's  Table  Talk"  is  quoted  at  the  beginning 
of  the  Introduction  to  the  book  before  us  :  "  Next  unto  theology  I  give  the  place 
and  highest  honour  to  musiek,  for  thereby  all  anger  is  forgotten,  the  devil 
is  driven  away,  unchastity,  pride,  and  other  blasphemies  are  expelled." 

High  words  of  praise  indeed,  but  none  too  high.  Rightly  does  Luther 
rank  music  next  to  theology  as  a  means  of  purifying  human  nature.  In  the 
world,  where  there  are  continual  temptations  to  turn  aside  and  labor  too 
much  for  the  meat  which  perisheth,  even  perhaps  for  the  useless  and  hurtful 
things  of  life,  the  mind,  the  heart  of  man  needs  to  be  frequently  reminded  of 
the  higher  things  (the  only  tangible  things)  of  life,  of  eternity  itself.  Men 
take,  and  should  take,  due  care  for  their  temporal  affairs,  but  in  the  incessant 
rush  and  hurry  of  life,  the  constant  demands  upon  us,  is  there  not  crave  danger 
that  we  may  dimly  see,  perhaps,  alas,  even  lose  of  sight  of,  the  spiritual  life? 


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96  -  Book  Notices.  [Jan. 

As  Christianity  plainly  teaches  that  there  can  be  no  sound  and  enduring  basis 
for  right  living  -without  right  thinking,  in  a  word  that  belief  precedes  action,  so 
the  emotional  nature,  another  great  source  of  the  spiritual  life,  needs  to  be  fed 
and  stimulated  as  well.  The  ideal  life  is  the  only  real  life.  All  other  phases  of 
life  are  as  perishable  as  the  vapor  that  vanisheth.  Religion  is  a  matter  of  the 
heart  as  well  as  of  the  head.  And  properly-guided  emotion,  enthusiasm,  is 
absolutely  necessary  to  its  highest,  fullest  development.  Surely  next  to  right 
belief  comes  fervor  and  warmth  of  heart.  Christian  feeling  and  aspiration 
may  not  reach  its  goal  through  the  reasoning  faculties  alone,  but  rather  through 
the  quicker  and  surer  means  of  the  religious  affections.  Thought  is  often  com- 
plex, not  so  impulse.  No  great  movement  for  the  benefit  of  mankind  was  ever 
carried  to  a  successful  issue  without  this  underlying,  all-permeatiug  priuciple 
of  enthusiasm.  No  force  in  the  world,  no  power  of  darkness,  can  cope  with 
rightly-grounded  enthusiasm.  Emotionalism  crystallizes  thought  into  action, 
and  makes  it  the  most  powerful  force  in  the  present  and  for  all  time.  And  to 
this  grand  faculty  sacred  music  ministers  unceasingly.  It  makes  for  all  that  is 
trne,  beautiful  and  enduring,  even  for  righteousness  itself. 
By  Bev.  Daniel  Bollins,  of  Cambridge. 

Good  Old  Dorchester.  A  Xarratire  History  of  the  Town,  1630-1S93.  By  Wil- 
liam Dana  Orcutt.  Cambridge :  Published  by  the  Author.  John  Wilson 
&  Son,  University  Press.  1893»  Svo.  pp.  497.  Price  $4  in  maroon  cloth,  or 
$5  in  white  vellum  cloth,  gilt  top.  For  sale  by  George  E.  Littlefield,  67  Corn- 
hilt,  Boston. 

This  work,  as  the  title  indicates,  is  a  narrative  history  of  Dorchester  during 
its  entire  existence.  The  author  has  done  well  to  cause  the  book  to  be  printed 
in  its  present  form.  Although  there  must  be,  necessarily,  much  that  has  before 
seen  the  light,  he  has  introduced  many  new  points.  These  will  be  readily  recog- 
nized by  those  familiar  with  Dorchester  history.  The  matter  contained  in  four 
of  the  chapters  of  the  book  are  designated:  "Colonial  Times,  1630^-1688"; 
"  Provincial  Times.  16S9-1783  " ;  "  The  Revolution  to  the  Rebellion,  1784-1860  " ; 
"Modern  Times,  1861-1893." 

In  this  brief  notice  it  is  unnecessary  to  hint  to  the  readers  of  the  Register 
the  importance  of  a  book,  in  design  and  execution  containing  so  much  vital  to 
the  historian,  especially  in  regard  to  the  incipiency,  history  and  progress  of  our 
free  schools,  as  also  our  municipal  and  ecclesiastical  governments.  These  sub- 
jects of  themselves  are  sufficient,  one  would  think,  to  recommend  a  careful  re- 
reading and  recital;  for  Dorchester  lays  claim,  as  is  well  known,  to  the  free 
school,  a  model  town  government,  early  mills,  &c,  from  Israel  Sloughton,  in 
1034,  down  to  the  present  time,  including  the  famous  chocolate  mills  of  Waiter 
Baker  &  Company. 

The  History  of  Dorchester,  published  by  a  committee  of  the  Dorchester  An- 
tiquarian and  Historical  Society,  in  1839,  largely  in  the  shape  of  Annals,  is  nearly 
out  of  print,  and  the  price  is"  enhanced.  It  was  intended,  in  a  great  measure, 
for  a  book  of  reference  rather  than  for  consecutive  reading;  a  repository  of 
facts,  names  and  dates.  The  late  Hon.  James  Savage  used  to  say,  "  bocks  are 
not  made  to  read,  but  to  be  used  for  reference."  Taking  this  view,  the  Dor- 
chester history  of  1859,  as  far  as  it  goes,  would  perhaps  be  considered  quite  as 
valuable  as  the  book  of  1893.  while  the  latter  might  be  thought  more  attractive, 
in  the  general  acceptation  of  the  term,  and  not  the  less  readable.  All  this  may 
be  said  without  the  least  disparagement  to  the  former  volume.  Both  have  their 
place,  and  may  each  properly  stand  side  by  side  on  the  shelves  of  the  students 
of  American  historv. 

Mr.  Orcutt  has  furnished  for  his  book  portraits  of  Richard  Mather,  William 
Stoughton,  Capt.  John  Percival,  Edward  Everett,  Thaddeus  Mason  Harris,  John 
Codman,  Nathaniel  Hall,  Ebenezer  Clapp,  Jr.,  and  Lucy  Stone.  The  anecdotes, 
reminiscences  and  biographical  sketches  presented  serve  as  a  counterpart,  to 
some  extent,  to  the  drv  details,  if  they  mav  so  be  called.  The  histories  of  the 
early  homes  are  interesting  and  entertaining.  The  illustrations,  about  fifty  in 
number,  include  portraits,  views,  churches,  old  houses,  &c,  fac-sirnile  signa- 
tures to  the  school  document  of  1641.  and  other  autographs  of  individuals  of 
former  times.  The  cut  entitled  "  A  view  of  the  Watering  Place  at  Tinian."  iu 
'  the  East  Indies,  on  page  412,  taken  from  an  old  work  called  "  The  World  Dis- 
played," printed  in  Dublin.  Ireland,  in  1779,  suggests  the  probably  correct 
spelling  of  a  familiar  point  of  land  in  Dorchester,  looking  seaward. 


18.04.] 


Booh  Notices.  97 


It  gives  us  pleasure  to  commend  this  volume  to  the  favorable  attention  of  the 
public.  The  paper,  print,  and  fine  margins  of  the  book,  coming  from  the  well- 
known  University  Press,  arc  all  that  the  most  fastidious  lover  of  nice  books 
need  desire.     It  has  also  a  good  index. 

By  William  B.  Trask,  A.M.,  of  Dorchester,  3Iass. 

Customs  and  Fashions  in  Old  New  England.     By  Alice  Morse  Earle.     New 

York:   Charles  Scribner's  Sons.     1893*     12mo,  pp.  3S7.    Price  SI. 25. 

The  author  of  that  interesting  and  instructive  book,  "  The  Sabbath  in  Puritan 
New  England,"  needs  no  introduction  to  the  American  public.  So  far  as  may  be 
Inferred  from  a  necessarily  rather  hasty  examination  of  Mrs.  Earle's  latest 
work,  it  would  appear  that  it  fully  sustains  her  reputation  for  careful  and  ex- 
tensive research  in  the  annals  of  our  dearly-loved  New  England.  This  book 
will  be  glaidly  welcomed  and  eagerly  read  by  New-England  people,  and  by  all 
whose  honest  pride  it  is  to  trace  their  descent  from  New-England  forefathers. 

There  will  be  a  difference  of  opinion  in  regard  to  the  value  set  by  the  author 
on  the  influence  of  Puritan  belief  and  actiou  on  the  history  of  our  native  land. 
While  evidently  meaning  to  be  just  in  her  estimate,  there  yet  permeates  her 
writings  a  spirit  altogether  too  common  at  present  among  many  of  our  writers, 
a  spirit  of  depreciation  of  the  grand  work  wrought  by  our  Puritan  ancestors 
in  laying  the  foundations  of  our  great  Republic  here  in  the  wilds  of  the  new 
world.  No  one  can  have  carefully  read  our  colonial  history,  at  least  have  care- 
fully measured  its  results,  without  making  due  allowance  for  the  powerful  in- 
fluence of  the  Puritan  spirit  in  New  England  and  in  Old  England.  It  is  not  too 
much  to  say  that  no  other  force  in  that  period  of  history  cau  for  a  moment 
compare  with  the  mighty  influence  for  religious  and  political  freedom  exercised 
by  this  the  then  dominant  English  spirit.  Without  excusing  its  excesses,  surely 
we  must  admit  that  the  reign  of  Puritanism  was  necessary  in  England  at  a  time 
when  the  Crown  was  weakand  incapable  of  protecting  its  subjects  at  home  or 
abroad.  Puritanism  with  its  stirring  note  aroused  England  from  her  lethargy 
and  restored  to  the  English-speaking  race  their  ancient  privileges  which  they 
had  well-nigh  lost;  it  restored  England  to  her  former  position  of  prestige 
among  the  European  nations ;  it  made  possible  the  building-up  in  our  western 
world  a  strong  and  enduring  system  of  government  "of  the  people,  by  the 
people,  for  the  people."  No  uation  can  ever  cope  with  the  tenacious,  the  stay- 
ing qualities  of  our  English  race  as  long  as  it  retains  its  old-time  vigor;  no  race- 
has  so  well  carried  out  the  idea  of  civil"  and  religious  liberty  at  home  and  abroad. 
The  American  spirit,  the  English  spirit,  stands  for  loyalty  to  truth  and  duty, 
for  firm  faith  and  trust  in  God. 

By  Bev.  Daniel  Bollins,  of  Cambridge,  Mass. 

Our  Colonial  Homes.  By  Sa.mtjel  Adams  Drake.  Boston:  Lee  &  Shepard, 
Publisher;,.  189-1.  Roval  Svo.  pp.  211.  Cloth,  full  gilt,  gilt  edges,  $2.50; 
fall  leather,  gilt  title,  gilt  edges,  §1.50. 

Mr.  Drake,  v,ho  has  won  an  enviable  reputation  by  his  previous  works  as  an 
accurate  aud  graceful  writer  on  antiquarian  subjects,  has  brought  forth  a  timely 
volume  on  a  subject  that  is  now  engrossing  much  interest  among  the  descend-- 
ants  of  American  colonial  families,  particularly  the  members  of  the  Societies  of 
Colonial  Wars,  and  the  Societies  of  Colonial  Dames.  They  will  gladly  welcome  it. 
The  homes  here  described  are  the  Hancock  house  and  the  home  of  Paul  Revere  in 
Boston;  the  Cradock  house  and  the  Royal!  house  in  Medford;  Edward  Everett's 
birthplace  and  the  Minot  homestead  in  Dorchester;  the  Quincy  mansion,  the 
Adams  mansion  aud  the  birthplace  of  the  two  Presidents  Adams  in  Quincy;  the 
Old  Ship  in  Hingham ;  the  old  Witch  house  in  Salem ;  the  Collins  house  and  the 
birthplace  of  Gen.  Putnam  in  Danvers;  the  last  residence  of  James  Otis  in  An- 
dovcV;  the  Wayside  Inn  in  Sudbury;  the  home  of  Sir  William  Pepperrell  in 
KHury ;  the  early  home  of  John  Howard  Paine  in  East  Hampton;  the  old  In- 
dian house  in  Deerfield;  the  Leonard  house  in  Raynham,  and  the  old  Stone 
house  in  Guilford. 

^  Mr.  Dr&ke,  in  his  Preface,  says:  "  One  end  which  I  proposed  to  myself  in 
this  bnv.k,  besides  presenting  house  and  home  historically,  was  to  gather  up  as 
many  diMiuct  types  of  the  colonial  architecture  of  New  England  as  possible, 
from  the  rude  farm  house  of  the  first  settlers  to  the  elegant  mansions  of  a  later 
generation;  as  it  seems  to  me  nothing  could  give  half  ^so  clear  a  picture  of  a 
century  and  a  half  of  colonial  life." 
VOL.  XLVIII.  9* 


98  Booh  Notices.  [Jan. 

King's  Handbook  of  Xew  York  City:  an  Outline  History  and  Description  of  the 
American  Metropolis.  With  over  One  Thousand  Illustrations  from  Photographs 
made  expressly  for  the  Work.  Planned,  Edited  and  Published  bv  JJoses  King. 
Boston,  Mass.  :  Second  Edition.  1893.  12ino.  pp.  1007.  Price  $2.  Sold  by 
Moses  King,  No.  4  Post  Office  Square.  Bostou. 

This  handsome  volume  of  over  one  thousand  paces,  with  more  than  a  thousand 
original  engravings  direct  from  photographs,  is  the  second  edition,  revised, 
enlarged  and  improved,  of  a  very  useful  and  handy  book.  The  first  edition  of 
the  -work  was  published  in  1S:>2,  and  the  whole  of  an  edition  of  ten  thousand 
copies  was,  we  are  informed,  sold  in  less  than  six  weeks.  This  edition  consists 
of  twenty  thousand  copies. 

Mr.  King  has  had  much  experience  in  preparing  such  works,  and  this  is  de- 
cidedly the  best  that  he  has  produced.  Every  visitor  to  New  York,  and  those 
who  wish  to  study  its  present  condition  and  its  history,  should  have  a  copy  of 
the  book.  The  life-long  resident  of  the  metropolis  of  our  couutrv  can  Yearn 
much  from  its  pages  that  it  Avould  be  difficult  to  obtain  without  its  "aid.  It  is 
an  admirable  hand-book  in  every  respect. 

Souvenir  of  the  Sherburne  Centennial  Celebration,  and  Dedication  of  a  Monument 
to  the  Proprietors  and  Em-ly  Settlers,  held   Wednesday,  June  21,  1893;  also 
Sketches  of  Families  and  oilier  Historical  Data.      Published  by  Marcius  D. 
Raymond.     Tarrytcwn,  X.  Y.     1893.     Larce  Svo.  pp.  111.     Price  §5.     Ad- 
dress, M.  D.  Raymond,  Pubbsher  of  The  Argus,  Tarrytown,  N.  Y. 
Washington  at  Tarrytoicn.     A  Paper  read  before  the  Tarrytoicn  Historical  Society, 
Tuesday  Eve,  December  16,  1890.     Bv  Marcius  D.  Raymond.     Published 
by  the  Author  by  Request.     Tarrytown,  N.  Y.     1893.     8vo.  pp.  18. 
_  The  centenary  of  the  settlement  of  Sherburne.  N.  Y.,  was  celebrated  in  a  fit- 
ting manner  on  the  21st  of  last  June  by  the  dedication  of  a  monument  in  honor 
of  the  early  settlers.     Mr.  Raymond  of  Tarrytown  was  chosen  the  historian  of 
the  occasion,  and  has  given  us  in  the  volume* before  us  a  full  report  of  the  pro- 
ceedings.    The  edition  was  limited  to  126  copies.     After  distributing  copies  to 
the  subscribers  to  the  Forefathers'  Memorial  Fund,  only  fifty  copies  were  left 
for  sale,  and  of  these  not  more  than  half  remain  unsold.     The  book  is  printed 
in  the  best  style,  and  many  tine  portraits  and  other  encravincs  illustrate  it. 
There  are  twenty-three  portraits.     Those  of  six  of  the  eleven  proprietors  have 
fac-similes  of  their  autographs  as  they  appear  on  an  old  deed.     The  celebration 
was  a  very  interesting  occasion,  and  the  proceedings  are  fully  detailed  iu  this 
book.     The  Centennial  Oration  was  bv  Rev.  Lewis  R.  Eoote,  D.D.,  the  Historical 
Address  was  by  the  editor,  Marcius  D.  Raymond,  and  the  Centennial  Poem  was 
by  Philo  L.  Hatch,  M.D. 

The  second  book,  whose  title  is  given  above,  is  an  account  of  "Washington's 
connection  with  Tarrytown,  N.  Y.,  from  his  arrival  there  in  the  campaign  of 
1776  to  his  last  visit  to  the  place  in  1783.  Much  of  romantic  interest  is  found  in 
this  narrative,  which  is  an  interesting  addition  to  our  local  history. 

History  of  Westminster,  Massachusetts  (first  named  Xarraaanset  Xo.  2),  from  the 
date  of  the  Original  Grant  of  the  Township  to  the  Present  Time— 1728-1893. 
With  a  Biographic-Genealogical  Register  of  its  Principal  Families.  By  William 
Sweetzer  Heywood.  Lowell.  Mass. :  Vox  Populi  Press,  S.  W.  Huse  &  Co. 
1803.     8vo.  pp.  xvi.+9G3.     Price  SI. 50. 

This  bulky  volume  of  nearly  one  thousand  paces,  by  one  of  the  members  of 
our  Society,  is  a  vast  storehouse  of  information  relating  to  the  history  of  West- 
minster. All  the  topics  which  are  looked  for  in  a  town  history  are  taken  up  and 
satisfactorily  treated  of.  The  wars  with  the  Indians,  with  the  French,  the  mother 
country,  and  the  seceding  states,  are  fully  narrated,  as  are  also  the  ecclesiastical, 
educational,  literary  and  social  history  of  the  place.  The  biography  of  natives 
and  residents  receives  due  attention.  Much  statistical  information  is  given. 
Genealogy  has.  a  liberal  share  of  the  book,  about  four  hundred  and  fifty  paces, 
nearly,  one  half  of  the  volume,  being  devoted  to  a  "  Biotrraphic-Genealoglcai 
Record.'"  The  work  seems  to  be  compiled  with  care,  judgment  and  cood  taste, 
and  is  well  indexed.  The  engravings  are  of  a  high  orde'r  and  are  numerous, 
consisting  of  two  maps,  seventeen  portraits,  and  twenty-five  landscapes,  dwel- 
lings, etc.  We  congratulate  the  citizens  of  the  town  on  havinc  so  satisfactorv 
a  history. 


1894.]  Boole  Notices.  99 

Tlie  Poor-Poore  Family   Gathering  at  Peabody,   Mass.,  September  10,  IS 90. 

Salem:  Printed  at  the  Saiem  Tress,  1803.     Pamphlet.  Svo.  pp.  o2. 

This  was  the  fourth  triennial  re-union  of  this  family,  and  its  proceedings 
are  recorded  in  these  'well-printed  pa^es,  which  contain,  besides,  obituaries  of 
deceased  members  aud  a  list  of  attendance,  exhibiting  relative  kinship. 

The  secretary,  Dr.  Alfred  Poore,  of  Salem,  has  been  gathering,  for  the  last 
fifty  years,  material  for  a  Poor-Poore  Genealogy,  of  which  the  first  velnrae 
was  published  in  royal  quarto,  entitled  John  Poore  and  his  F/mily.  Salem  :  1SS1. 
The  industrious  devotion  illustrated  in  long  travels  and  much  correspondence 
expended  in  the  preparation  of  this  initial  volume,  suggested  the  formation  of  an 
association,  as  likely  to  prove  valuable  in  accuracy  of  statistics,  and  agreeable 
in  bringing  into  pergonal  acquaintance  widely-scattered  individuals  of  the  race. 
Such  an  association  was  formed  in  1SS1  and  its  benefits  have  been  apparent. 
The  fruits  of  organization  are  distributed  after  every  meeting  in  printed  records 
like  the  present. 

Dr.  Poore,  in  1858,  published  Researches  of  the  Merrimack  Valley,  chiefly  pre- 
senting the  genealogy  of  Richard  Bailey,  of  Rowley,  a  maternal  ancestor.  To 
that  was  added  a  department  of  Notes  and  Queries  relating  to  the  Merrimack 
Valley,  and  double-columned  pa;res  of  Passing  Events,  Marriages,  Deaths,  etc. 
The  enterprise  deserved  a  better  success  than  it  received,  antedating,  as  it  did, 
all  similar  publications,  except  the  Register. 

•By  Geo.  A.  Gordon,  A.M.,  of  Somen  Me,  Mass. 

The  Massachusetts  Society  of  the  Sor.s  of  the  American  Revolution,  with  the  Xa- 
tional  and  State  Constitutions,  1893.  Printed  by  the  Rockwell  and  Churchill 
Press,  Boston,  Mass.  1S93.  8vo.  pp.  172.  Copies  of  this  volume  can  be 
purchased  of  William  B.  Clarke  &  Co..  3-10  Washington  Street,  Boston,  price 
§2;  by  mail  $2.12. 

The  Massachusetts  Society  of  the  Sons  of  the  American  Revolution,  who  issue 
this  volume, *is  a  branch  of  the  National  Society  of  "Washington.  The  constitu- 
tions of  both  societies  are  given.  Brief  sketches  of  the  ancestors  of  members 
of  the  Massachusetts  society  are  given,  with  the  descent  of  each  from  "  some 
ancestor  who  with  unfailing  loyalty  rendered  material  aid  to  the  cause  of 
American  Independence,  as  a  soldier  or  as  a  seaman,  or  a  civil  officer  in  oue 
of  the  several  colonies  or  States,  or  ,of  the  United  Colonies,  or  States  as  a 
recognized  patriot." 

The  book  is  handsomely  printed,  aud  is  illustrated  by  fine  eugravings. 

Brampton  Sketches:    Old-Time  Xew  Ennland  Life.    By  Mary  B.  Claflin.    New 

York:     Thomas  Y.  Crowell  &  Co.     1S93..     12mo. 

Brampton  is  another  name  for  the  town  of  Hopkinton,  Mass.,  and  the  sketches 
are  of  events  transpiring  in  that  locality.  The  author  reproduces  the  old-time 
meeting  house,  school  house,  doctor,  lawyer,  minister,  peculiar  characters  and 
queer  people.  The  pen  pictures  are  pleasantly  drawn.  The  illustrations,  to- 
gether with  the  excellent  typography,  make  it  an  attractive  contribution  to  the 
literature  of  a  by-gone  period  in  New-England  life. 

By  Hon.  Charles  Carleton  Coffin,  A.M.,  of  Boston. 

A  Slight  Sketch  of  the  Life  of  Caleb  Dacis  Bradhe,  D.D.,  Pastor  (pro  tern.)  of 
Christ  Church,  Longicood."  By  E.  R.  L.,  a  graduate  of  Boston  University. 
Boston:    Printed,  not  published.     1893.     Svo.  pp.  18. 

Dr.  Bradlee,  whose  life  is  here  sketched,  has  held  the  offices  of  corresponding 
and  recording  secretary  of  the  New-England  Historic  Genealogical  Society,  and 
is  the  author  of  "  Sermons  for  All  Sects"  noticed  by  us  in  January,  1889,  and 
other  publications.  His  life  has  been  a  very  useful  one,  and  his  ministerial, 
literary,  historical  and  philanthropic  labors  are  well  told  in  the  pamphlet  before 
us.     The  author,  we  are  informed,  is  Miss  E.  R.  Lynch  of  Boston. 

Christ  Church,  Cambridge:    Some  Account  of  its  History  and  Present  Condition. 

Especially  prepared  for  Visitors.     Cambridge.     1893.     Fcp.  ito.  pp.  88. 

This  historical  account  of  Christ  Church  in  Cambridge  is  by  Mr.  Samuel  F. 
Batcheldm*  of  that  city.  It  contains  much  valuable  and  interesting  matter  rela- 
tive to  this  church  which  was  organized  in  1759.  It  is  printeu  in  fine  style  and 
seems  to  be  carefully  compiled. 


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.  100  Booh  Notices.  [Jan. 

Records  of  the  lie/armed  Dutch  Churches  of  Hackensack  and  Schraalenburgh,  New 
Jersey.     With  the  Registers  of  Members,  Marriages,  Baptisms  and  the  Consis- 
tories to  the  beginning  of  the  Nineteenth  Century. 
Part  I.     Being  the  Records  in  possession  of  the  Church  of  Hackensack,  JV.  J. 

Printed  for  the  Society.  1391.  Royal  Svo.  pp.  xxiii.-f-349. 
Part  IT.  Being  the  Records  in  possession  of  the  (South)  Church  of  Schraalen- 
burgh, Ni  J.  Printed  for  the  Society.  1691.  Royal  8vo.  pp.  vi.+387. 
The  two  handsome  volumes  are  the  first  issues  of  the  Collections  of  the  Hol- 
land Society  of  New  York,  founded  in  18S5.  Soon  after  the  organization  of 
this  Society,  we  are  told  in  the  Preface,  "The  attention  of  the  trustees  was 
called  to  the  importance  of  securing  copies  of  the  records  of  the  ancient  Dutch 
churches  of  the  country.  If  only  for  the  purpose  of  tracing  the  lineage  of  the 
descendants  of  the  early  Dutch  settlers,  these  records  are  of  great  value.  The 
practice  of  baptizing  their  children  within  a  very  few  days  of  their  birth,  was 
almost  universal  with  members  of  the  Dutch  Church;  and  as  the  baptismal 
records  usually  contain,  in  addition  to  the  father's  name,  the  maiden  name  of 
the  mother,  they  afford  peculiar  aid  to  the  genealogist.  Additional  value  is 
given  to  the  marriage  records  by  the  fact  that  they  frequently  mention  the  birth- 
places of  the  several  parties." 

"Family  names,"  we  are  told  in  the  Introduction,  "were  not  common  among 
the  Dutch  immigrants.  Persons  of  the  same  baptismal  names  were  disting- 
uished from  each  other  iu  various  ways."  Sometimes  by  their  trades,  as  Jan 
Kuyper  (John  the  cooper) ;  sometimes  by  the  place  of  birth  or  residence,  as 
Jan  Van  Wyck  (John  from  Wyck)  j  and  at  other  times  by  affixing  the  father's 
baptismal  name  with  the  addition  of  s.  se,  or  sen,  indicating  the  relationship, 
as  Jan  Pieters  or  Fietersen  (John  the  son  of  Peter).  This  makes  the  study  of 
Dutch  genealogy  very  difficult. 

The  Holland  Society  has  acted  wisely  in  devoting  the  two  parts  of  the  first 
volume  of  {he  Collections  to  the  records  of  baptisms  and  marriages  of  two  of 
the  early  Dutch  churches,  of  which  fortunately  a  large  portion  are  preserved  to 
the  present  time, 
The  books  are  well  printed,  on  fine  paper,  and  are  thoroughly  indexed. 

The  Story  of  Mt.  Benedict.    By  B.  F.  DeCosta.     Somerville  Citizen  Press.    8vo. 

pp.  14.     Pamphlet. 

The  author  writes  of  scenery  familiar  to  his  boyhood  and  of  events  in  which 
a  member  of  his  family  was  associated.  The  narrative  very  clearly  shows  the 
steps  taken  to  suppress  this  early  attempt  to  establish  a  convent  under  the  very 
shadow  of  Bunker  Hill;  the  community,  in  its  rage  against  popery,  incurring  a 
debt  for  a  succeeding  generation  to  pay  with  interest.  A  view  of  the  convent 
building  is  reproduced  with  au  impossible  background.  The  site,  historically 
known  as  Ploughed  Hill,  will  soon  be  level  with  the  adjacent  streets,  and  the 
convent  with  the  canal  will  live  only  in  history.  This  little  pamphlet,  for  its 
accuracy  and  faithfuiuess,  will  possess  a  greater  value  to  the  future  antiquarian 
than  its  modest  dimensions  would  warrant. 

By  Geo.  A.  Gordon,  A.A[.,  of  Somerville. 

Some    Old  Puritan   Love-Letters — John  and  Margaret   Winthrop.   1618-1638. 

Edited  bv  Joseph  Hopkixs  Twichell.    New  York :  Dodd,  Mead  &  Company. 

1893.     12mo.  pp.  187.     Price  $2. 

These  letters  of  Gov.  Johu  Winthrop  and  his  wife  Margaret,  daughter  of  Sir 
John  Tindal,  give  us  a  good  idea  not  only  of  the  love  letters  of  the  Puritans  at 
the  time  of  the  settlement  of  the  Massachusetts  Colony,  but  they  also  furnish 
much  insight  into  the  social  condition  of  the  Puritans  of  Old  England  and  New 
at  that  period.  Mr.  Twichell  has  performed  a  good  work  in  collecting,  editing 
and  printing  these  letters  for  the  instruction  of  the  New-England  people  of 
to-day.     They  make  a  handsome  volume. 

Personal  Recollections  of  John  G.  Whittier.    By  Mary  B.  Claflix.    New  York: 

Thomas  Y.  Crowell  £  Co.     1893.     16mo.     Price  75  cents. 

It  is  a  small  but  beautifully  printed  volume.  The  poet  Whittier  was  a  fre- 
quent visitor  in  the  home  of  the  author,  who  has  brought  together  her  recollec- 
tions of  many  pleasant  hours.     It  is  a  welcome  contribution. 

By  Hon.  Charles  Carleton  Coffin,  A.M.,  of  Boston. 


1894.]  '  Recent  Publications.  101 

RECENT   PUBLICATIONS, 

Presented  to  the  New-England  Historic  Genealogical  Society  from  Ji'ly.  15  to 
Dec.  1, 1S93. 

Prepared  by  Walter  K.  Watxixs,  Assistant  Librarian. 

I.  Publications  written  or  editei  5y  Members  of  the  Society. 

Brief  History  of  the  Massachusetts  Charitable  Fire  Society.  By  the  Secre- 
tary, Henry  EL  Sprague.  Boston  :  Little,  Brown  &  Co.  1S93.  Roval  8vo.  pp. 
183. 

The  Cable  Family.     By  Charles  E.  Banks,  M.D.     Svo.  pp.  6. 

Diocese  of  Massachusetts.  The  Enlargement  of  its'  Diocesan  Library.  By 
Rev.  Edmund  F.  Siafter,  D.D.     Boston.     1893.     8vo.  pp.  8. 

Thomas  Vcnner,  the  Boston  Wine  Cooper  and  Fifth  Monarchy  Man.  By 
Charles  E.  Banks,  M.D.     Boston.     189,3.     Svo.  pp.  S. 

Antoine  L'Espenard,  the  French  Hugenot  of  NewRochelle.  Bv  Gen.  Charles 
W.  Darling,  A.M.     New  York.     1893.     8vo.  pp.  20. 

Land  Transfer  Reform.     By  John  T.  Hassam.     Boston.     1S93.     8vo.  pp.  12. 

Col.  Thomas  Gilbert,  the  Leader  of  New  England  Tories.  By  John  C.  Crane. 
Worcester.     1893.     8vo.  pp.  19. 

The  Haines  Arms.     By  Andrew  M.  Haines.     12mo.  pp.  12. 

Waterloo  :  The  Campaign  and  Battle.  By  J.  Watts"  de  Peyster.  New  York. 
1893.     8vo.  pp.  32. 

America.     The  Study  of  Nations,  &c.     1893.     Svo.  pp.  22. 

The  Episcopal  Address.  By  Rt.  Rev.  William  Stevens  Perry.  1893.  Svo. 
pp.  11. 

Memorial  Address,  30  May,  1S92.     By  Frank  W.  Hackett.     1893.    8vo.  pp.  12. 

Bi-ceutenniai  Souvenir  of  Newcastle,"  N.  H.,  by  Chester  B.  Curtis.  Historical 
Address,  by  Frank  W.  Hackett.     Concord,  N.  H.     1893.     8vo.  pp.  51. 

Memoir  of  Jeremiah  Colburn,  A.M.  By  John  Ward  Dean,  A.M.  Boston. 
1893.     8vo.  pp\  11. 

Memoir  of  William  Henry  Montague.  By  John  Ward  Dean.  Boston.  1S90. 
8vo.  pp.  14. 

Address  in  Presentation  of  College  Charter  and  Keys.  By  Joseph  F.  Tuttle. 
Crawfordsville.     1893.     Svo.  pp.  16. 

The  Congregational  Year-Book,  1893.  (Henry  A.  Hazen,  D.D.).  Boston. 
1893.     Svo.  pp.  438. 

Leifs  House  in  Vineland.  By  Eben  Norton  Horsford.  Graves  of  the  North- 
men.   By  Cornelia  Horsford,     Boston.     1893.     4to.  pp.  40. 

Bills  of  Mortality,  1810-1849.  City  of  Boston.  Bv  William  H.  Whitmore. 
With  an  Essay  on  the  Vital  Statistics  of  Boston  from*1810  to  1841.  By  Lemuel 
Shattuck.     Boston.     Printed  for  the  Registry.     1893.     8vo.  pp.  xliii.-f-S7. 

Statistics  of  Comb-making  in  Leominster,  1852.  By  Caleb  C.  Field,  M.D. 
Withan  Introduction  by  Samuel  A.  Green,  M.D.    Worcester.    1893.    8vo.  pp.  14. 

The  Poor-Poore  Family  Re-union,  10  SeDtember,  1S90.  Salem.  1893.  8vo. 
pp.  61. 

II.     Other  Publications. 

Collections  of  the  Holland  Society  of  New  York.  Vol.  I.  Part  1.  Hacken- 
eack  Church  Records.  Part  2.  Schraalenburgh  Church  Records.  Printed  for 
the  Society.     1891.     Royal  Svo.  pp.  xxiu.-f-349  and  vi.-(-387. 

Iowa  City,  a  Contribution  to  the  Eaiiv  History  of  Iowa.  By  Benjamin  F. 
Shambaugti,  M.A.    Iowa  City.     1893.     Svo.  pp.  116. 

Statistics  of  Public  Libraries  in  the  United  States  and  Canada.  By  Weston 
Flint.     Washington.     1893.     Svo.  pp.  xiii.-f-213. 

Cayuga  County  Historical  Society  Collections.  Number  Ten.  Auburn,  N.  Y. 
1893.     8vo.  pp.  57. 

History  of  the  Medford  High  School.  Bv  Charles  Cummings.  Boston.  1893. 
8vo.  pp.  37. 

Farewell  Discourse  by  Rev.  C.  R.  Eliot,  Minister  of  the  First  Parish,  Dor- 
chester.    Boston.     1893.     Svo.  pp.  12. 

The  Eastport  Sentinel.  A  Historical  Sketch,  18 18-1893.  Eastport.  1693. 
4to.  pp.  21. 

Salem  at  the  World's  Columbian  Exposition.     Salem.     1893.    Svo.  pp.  56. 


102  Recent  Publications.  [Jan. 

Benjamin  Franklin  and  the  University  of  Pennsylvania.  "Washington.  1893. 
8vo.  pp.  450. 

Historical  and  Scientific  Society  of  Manitoba.  Annual  Report  for  1892.  The 
Social  Customs  and  Amusements  in  the  Early  Days  in  the  lied  River  Settlement 
and  Rupert's  Land.     "Winnipeg.     1893.     8vo.  pp.  23  and  pp.  7. 

History  of  Higher  "Education  in  Ohio.  By  George  W.  Knight  and  John  R. 
Commons.     Washington.     1891.     Svo.  pp.  258. 

The  Proceedings  and  Transactions  of  the  Nova  Scotian  Institute  of  Science. 
Halifax.     1892.     8vo.  pp.  132. 

The  United  Empire  Lovalists.  By  Rev.  W.  A.  Ravmoud,  M.A.  Saint  Stephen, 
N.  B.     1893.     Svo.  pp.  46. 

Sir  Edmund  Andros.     By  Henry  Ferguson,  M.A.     Svo.  pp.  30. 

Past  and  the  Present  of  Steam  Navigation  on  Long  Island  Sound.  By  Henry 
Whittemore.     New  York.     1893.     8vo".  pp.  71. 

Papers  and  Reports  preseuted  to  the  Connecticut  Historical  Society  at  the 
Annual  Meeting  of  the  Society,  May  23,  1893.     Hartford.     1893.     Svo.  pp.  49. 

Seventh  Annual  Report  of  the  Society  for  the  History  of  the  Germans  in 
Maryland,  1S92-1893.     Baltimore.     1S93.     Svo.  pp.  83. 

Minutes  of  the  General  Association  of  the  Congregational  and  Presbyterian 
Churches  of  New  Hampshire.     Bristol,  N.  H.     1893.     Svo.  pp.  100. 

Two  Hundredth  Anniver.sarv  of  the  First  Congregational  Church,  Old  Lyme, 
Conn.,  1093-1893.     By  Rev.  Arthur  Shirley.     Lyme.     1893.     Svo.  pp.  17. 

Manual  of  the  Cavuga  Countv  Historical  Society,  1876-1893.  1893.  Svo. 
pp.  30. 

Proceedings  of  the  New-Ensrland  Methodist  Historical  Society,  16  January, 
1S93.     Boston.    -1S93.     8vo.  pp.  35. 

Vermont.  A  Glimpse  of  its  Scenery  and  Industries.  By  Victor  J.  Spear. 
Montpelier.     1893.     Svo.  pp.  64. 

Capt.  Samuel  Smedley  of  Fairfield,  Conn.  By  Arthur  D.  Osborne.  8vo. 
pp.  11. 

Tho  Origin  and  Progress  of  Boston  University.     Boston.     1893.     8vo.  pp.  64. 

American  Loyalty,  Washington  Founder,  Webster  Expounder  of  the  Federal 
Constitution.     By  Henry  R.  Jackson,  LL.D.    Savannah,  Ga.    1893.    Svo.  pp.  37. 

By-laws  of  the  Historical  Society  of  Watertown.  Watertown.  1893.  12mo. 
pp.  15. 

A  Slight  Sketch  of  the  Life  of  Caleb  Davis  Bradlee,  D.D.  Boston.  1893. 
8vo.  pp.  18. 

The  History  of  Illinois  and  Louisiana  under  the  French  Rule.  By  Joseph 
Wallace.     Cincinnati.     1893.     8vo.  pp.  ix.+433. 

General  George  H.  Thomas.  A  Critical  Biography  bv  Donn  Piatt,  with  con- 
cluding chapters  by  Henry  V.  Boynton.     Cincinnati.     1893.     Svo.  pp.  658. 

A  Souvenir  of  the  Conant  Memorial  Church.  Printed  for  Hezekiah  Conant. 
Boston.     1893.     8vo.  pp.  xi.-fl.30. 

War  of  the  Rebellion  Official  Records.  Washington.  1893.  Vol.  XLI.  Part 
IV.,  pp.  1310.     Vol.  XLII.  Part  I.,  pp.  1125.     Atlas  Parts  XVII.  to  XX. 

Memorial  Addresses  on  the  Life  and  Character  of  Mrs.  David  Hewes.  San 
Francisco.     1893.     Svo.  pp.  42. 

Collections  of  the  Surrey  Archaeological  Society.  Vol.  XL  Pfc.  II.  London. 
1893.     8vo.  pp.  285. 

Transactions  and  Reports  of  the  Nebraska  State  Historical  Society.  Vol.  V. 
Lincoln,  Neb.     1893.     8vo.  pp.  295. 

The  Medical  Register  of  New  York,  New  Jersey  and  Connecticut.  Vol.  XXXI. 
William  T.  White^  M.D.,  Editor.     New  York.     1893.     12mo.  pp.  cliv.-f-334. 

Proceedings  and  Transactions  of  the  Royal  Society  of  Canada  for  the  year 
1892.     Vol.  X.     Ottawa.     1893.     4to. 

Worcester  Town  Records,  1811-1816.  Edited  by  Franklin  P.  Rice.  Worces- 
ter.    Society  of  Antiquity.     1891.     8vo. 


Genealogies. — The  following  genealogical  works  have  been  presented  to  the 
Society,  and  notices  of  them  will  appear  in  the  April  number: — 

The  Treat  Family :  A  Genealogv  of  Trott,  Tratt  and  Treat  for  Fifteen  Gen- 
erations  and  Four  Hundred  and  Fifty  Years  in  England  and  America.  Contain- 
ing more  than  Fifteen  Hundred  Families  in  America.  By  John  Harvey  Treat, 
A.M.  Salem,  Mass. :  The  Salem  Press  Publishing  and  Printing  Company.  1893. 
Royal  Svo.  pp.  xii.-f  637. 


1894.]  -  Deaths.  103 

Armorial  General  de  France  de  D'Hozier  (Complement).  Notice  Ge'nealogi- 
que  sur  la  Fauulle  Sohier  de  Vermadois.  Paris  :  Librairie  de  Firmin-Didot  et 
Cie.     1884.     Folio  pp.  55. 

The  Plumbs.  1635-1800.  By  H.  B.  Plumb.  Perly,  Luzerne  County,  Pa. : 
Second  Edition.     1893.     Oblong  folio,  pp.  102. 

Launceiot  Granger  of  Newbury,  Mass.,  and  Suffield,  Conn.  A  Genealogical 
History.  By  James  N.  Granger.  Hartford,  Conn.  :  Press  of  the  Case,  Lock- 
wood  <jc  Brainard  Company.  1893.  8vo.  pp.  587.  Price  §7.50;  bv  mail  §7.86; 
to  be  obtained  of  the  author,  42  Falls  St.,  Niagara  Fails,  N.  Y. ' 

Memorial  of  Jpsi&h  Kendall,  one  of  the  First  Settlers  of  Sterling,  Mass.,  and 
of  Some  of  his  Ancestors  and  of  his  Descendants.  By  Oliver  Kendall.  Provi- 
dence :  Printed  by  the  Author.  1884.  4to.  pp,  xviii.-4-135.  Only  120  copies 
printed.     Price  §3  in  cloth,  or  si  in  half  morocco. 

A  Frisian  Family.  The  Bauta  Geuealogy.  By  Theodore  M.  Bauta.  New 
Fork.     189'3.     Royal  8vo.  pp.  xiii.+412. 

A  Record  of  the  Ancestry  and  Kindred  of  the  Children  of  Edward  Thomp- 
kins,  Sr.     Printed  for  the  Compiler.     1893.     Royal  8vo.  pp.  65. 

Early  Wills  illustrating  the  Ancestry  of  Harriot  Collin.  By  her  grandson. 
"William  S.  Appleton.  Boston:  Press  of  David  Clapp  &  Son.  1893."  8vo.  pp. 
86. 

The  Felt  Genealogy.  A  Record  of  the  Descendants  of  George  Felt  of  Casco 
Bay.  Compiled  by  John  E.  Morris.  Hartford,  Conn. :  Press  of  the  Case, 
Lockwood  £  Brainard  Company.     1893.     8vo.  pp.  567. 

History  of  Clare  and  the  Daleassian  Clans  of  Tippexary,  Limerick  and  Galway. 
By  the  Very  Rev.  B.  White,  P.P.,  V.G.  Dublin  :  M.  H.  Gill  &  Son,  50  Upper 
O'Connell  Street.     1S93.     8yo.  pp.  398. 

The  History  of  the  Allison  Family  in  Europe  and  America,  A.  D.  1135  to  1893. 
By  Leonard  Allison  Morrison.  Boston,  Mass. :  Published  by  Damrell  &  Uphani. 
18*93.     8vo.  pp.  xiv.-f-312. 

A  Genealogical  History  of  the  Gallup  Family  of  the  United  States.  By  John 
D.  Gallup,  Agawam,  Mass.  Hartford,  Conn.  :  Press  of  the  Hartford  Printing 
Company.     1893.     8yo.  pp.  329. 

The  History  of  Edward  Pool  a  of  Weymouth,  Mass.,  and  his  Descendants.  By 
Murray  Edward  Poole,  A  B.  Press  of  the  Ithaca  Democrat.  1893.  8vo.  op. 
164. 

Notes  of  the  Family  of  Kin?,  'of  West  Hall,  Dorset.  Bv  Charles  Herbert 
Mayo,  M.A.,  R.D.  December,"  1893.  J.  A.  &  S.  T.  Sawtell,  Printers,  Sher- 
burne.    8vo.  pp.  12. 

Family  Records.  Parker— Pond— Peck.  By  Edwin  Pond  Parker,  D.D. 
1636-1892.  Hartford,  Conn. :  Press  of  the  Case,  Lockwood  &  Brainard  Com- 
pany.    1S92.     8vo.  pp.  51. 

Collections  relating  to  the  Family  of  Trotman.  Edited  by  W.  P.  W.  Fhille- 
more.  Printed  for  Private  Circulation  by  John  White,  Stroud,  Gloucestershire. 
1892.     Svo.  pp.  76. 

The  Pedigree  of  Robert  Barciay-Allardiee,  Heir  Apparent  of  Line  of  Prince 
David  Stuart,  Earl  Palatine  of  Strathearn,  the  Earls  of  Monteith  and  Airth. 
Lords  Graham  of  Kilpont  and  Kilbryde:  and  the  Families  of  Barclay  of  Mathers 
and  Ury,  and  Allardice  of  Allardice.     1892.     Broadside,  17  by  48  inches. 


DEATHS. 

Mr.WnxiAM  Winters,  of  Waltham  Abbey.  Telegraph  for  Waltham  Abbey,  Cheshunt 

in   Es*ex,  England,  a  writer  on  local  and   Districts"    July    28,    1893.      This 

ana   family   history,   and   perhaps    the  obituary  is  chiefly  compded  from  that 

best  known  inhabitant  of  that  ancient  newspaper.       The     ancestors    of    Mr. 

town;  died  there  on  Sunday,  July  23,  Winters's  father,  he  thinks,  settled  at 

1893,  in  his  59th  year.     His  father,  an  Cambridge,  and  were  known  chiefly  as 

Bgncultnral  laborer,  died  when  he  was  humble,  godly  people.     About  the  close 

two  years  old,  and  he   was  bred  under  of  the  last  century  his   grandfather  re- 

t.ic    ron-t    discouraging  circumstances.  moved  to  the  village  of  Walkern,  Herts, 

feme  time  before  Mr.  Winters  died  he  In  this  village  Mr.  Winter*  was  bom  on 

prepared    nn    autobiography,    extracts  Tuesday    morning,    August    31,    1S34. 

from  which  are  printed  in  "  The  Weekly  When  he  was  four  years  old  his  mother 


104 


Deaths. 


[Jan. 


married   Mr.   W.  Perry    of   Waltham 

Abbey.  In  this  town  he  attended  school 
till  he  was  eight  years  of  age,  when  he 
went  to  work  in  a  silk  printing  factory 
in  Waltham,  far  some  time  alternating 
between  the  factory  and  school.  After- 
wards he  obtained  employment  In  the 
Entield  Gun  Factory,  where  he  worked 
two  years  and  a  half.  From  En  held  he 
went  to  work  for  a  neighboring  farmer, 
and  for  five  years  was  employed  in 
looking  after  cattle,  during  which  time 
he  never  had  one  day's  holiday. 

"When  he  was  about  twenty  years  of 
age  he  obtained  employment  in  the 
Royal  Gunpowder  Factory  at  Waltham 
Abbey,  where  he  remained  twelve  years. 
"While  thus  employed  he  devoted  him- 
self to  study,  and  endeavored  in  some 
degree  to  make  up  for  the  deficiencies 
of  his  early  years. 

In  1876  he  became  pastor  of  the 
"Ebenezer  Baptist  Chapel,  Fountain 
Square,  which  was  founded  on  strict 
aud  particular  Baptist  principles."  lie 
had  previously  been  a  member  and  a 
deacon  of  this '  congregation,  and  he 
served  as  pastor  uutil  within  a  few 
months  of  his  death,  when  the  disease 
which  ended  his  days  first  developed 
symptoms  of  paralysis.  He  became  a 
member  ^of  the  Essex  Archaeological 
Society  in  1871,  and  a  Fellow  of  the 
Royal  Historical  Society  in  1874. 

On  the  26th  of  June,  18-57,  he  married 
Miss  Mary  Maynard,  the  eldest  daugh- 
ter of  James  and  Mary  Maynard,  then 
of  London.  Later  on  he  purchased  the 
bookselling  and  stationery  business  of 
his  wife's  grandfather,  Mr.  W.  Maynard, 
who  carried  on  that  business  for  forty 
years  under  the  shadow  of  '.he  Old 
Abbey  Church,  Waltham,  where  the 
remainder  of  his  life,  up  to  within  a  few- 
weeks  of  his  death,  was  passed.  His 
success  in  this  business  was  so  great 
that  in  a  few  years  he  was  able  to  give 
up  his  connection  with  the  Gunpowder 
Factory.  Much  of  his  time  during  the 
latter  part  of  his  life  was  devoted  to 
literary  and  antiquarian  studies.  He 
contributed  to  the  Register  for  April, 
1874  (vol.  29,  p.  170),  an  article  on 
•'The  Pdgrims  of  Nazing,"  and  to  the 
number  for  October.  I88i  (vol.  39,  p. 
36-5),  one  on  the  "Eliot  Family."  The 
articles  contain  much  genealogical  mat- 
ter relating  to  families  which  emigrated 
from  Nazing  to  New  England,  par- 
ticularly that  to  which  John  Eliot  the 


Apostle  to  the  Indians  belonged.  In 
1882  he  published  a  pamphlet  entitled 
"Memoirs  of  the  Pilgrim  Fathers  John 
Eliot  and  his  Friends  of  Xazing  and 
Waltham  Abbey"  (Svo.  pp.  88).  In 
ISS.j  he  published  "Our  Parish  Regis- 
ters of  Waltham  Holy  Cross  "  (12  mo.). 
He  also  wrote:  Visitors'  Handbook  of 
Waltham  Holy  Cross,  1870  ;  Visitors' 
Handbook  of  Cheshunt ;  The  Life  and 
Writings  of  A.  M.  Topiady,  1S72  ;  an 
account  of  the  musical  talent  of  the 
Wesley  family,  1874 ;  Biographical 
Notes  on  John  Foxe,  the  Martyrologist ; 
Boy  Life  or  Early  Struggles  of  Great 
Men  ;  a  small  work  on  the  Immortality 
of  the  Soul ;  and  many  other  books 
and  pamphlets. 

Mr.  Winters  was  buried,  not  in  the 
Churchyard  of  the  Abbey  near  which 
he  had  so  long  lived  and  labored ; 
but  this  having  been  closed  to  all 
burials,  his  body  rests,  in  hope,  in  the 
New  Cemetery,  a  short  distance  south- 
east of  the  town,  yet  within  sound  of 
the  bells  of  the  old"  Abbey,  as  they  peal 
forth  the  hours  and  quarters,  or  sum- 
mon worshippers  withiu  its  walls. 

There  is  an  excellent  likeness  of  Mr. 
Winters  in  a  periodical  entitled  "The 
Earthen  Vessel  and  Gospel  Herald  "  for 
January,  1891,  of  which  he  was  the 
editor."  Ellsworth  Eliot,  M.D.,  of  New 
York  city,  to  whom  we  are  indebted  for 
some  of  the  facts  in  this  obituary,  visited 
him  last  year,  and  he  writes  me :  "  I 
could  not  but  notice  the  great  respect 
which  was  shown  him  by  numerous 
persons." 

Hon.  William  Wirt  Virgix,  Judge  of  the 
Supreme  Judicial  Court  of  Maine,  died 
in  Portland,  Maine,  January  23,  1893, 
aged  69  years,  4  months  and  5  days. 
His  wife  and  one  son,  Harry  R.  Virgin, 
Esq.,  of  the  Cumberland  Co.  bar,  sur- 
vive him. 


Mrs.  Elizabeth  C.  YorxG,  of  Medford, 
Mass.,  died  in  that  city  August  21, 
1893,  aged  88  years  and  8  months.  She 
was  a  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Sarah 
(Dudley)  Rumrill,  and  the  widow  of 
George  Young.  Her  mother  was  Sarah, 
daughter  of  William*  and  Sarah  (Wil- 
liams) Dudley.5  William  Dudley  was 
descended  from  Gov.  Thomas1  Dudley, 
through  Gov.  Joseph,3  William,3  and 
Thomas,4  his  father. 


Errata.— Page  76,  1.  19,  for  Cather  Smith  read  father  Smith ;  1.  23,  for  Roger's 
Rangers  read  Rogers's  rangers. 


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GENEALOGICAL  GLEANINGS  IN  ENGLAND. 

By  Hbnb.y  F.  Waters,  A.M. 
[Continued  from  Vol.  xlvii.,  page  532.] 

Thomas  Boylson  citizen  and  clothworker  of  London,  1  July  1643, 
proved  19  August  16-18.  I  do  intend  and  purpose  to  settle  a  sermon  or 
lecture  within  the  parish  church  of  Burton  upon  Trent  in  the  County  of 
Staff,  upon  the  third  day  in  every  week  forever,  to  be  preached  by  an  able, 
learned  aud  Orthodox  preacher  of  the  Protestant  Religion,  to  begin  about 
cine  of  the  clock  in  the  forenoon,  and  for  maintenance  of  the  same  have 
delivered  into  the  hands  of  the  Right  Worshipful  Company  of  Cloth- 
workers,  whereof  I  am  a  member,  the  sum  of  eight  hundred  pounds. 
They  shall  make  a  yearly  payment  of  one  aud  thirty  pounds  and  four  shil- 
lings for  the  maintaining  of  the  said  sermon  &c.  and  to  the  Clerk  or  Sex- 
ton sixteen  shillings  per  annum  for  his  attendance  and  toleing  of  the  bell 
for  the  said  Lecture.  In  case  the  said  Lecture  be  not  continued,  with  an 
Orthodox  divine  minister  of  the  Protestant  Religion,  according  to  my 
desire,  the  one  half  of  the  said  yearly  payment  shall  be  yearly  paid  to  the 
Treasurer  of  Christ's  Hospital,  for  the  better  maintenance  of  the  poor  children 
harbored  in  the.  said  Hospital,  and  the  other  half  to  the  use  of  the  poor  of 
the  said  Company  of  Clothworkers  &c.  To  my  nephew  John  Boylson 
(whom  in  another  clause  he  describes  as  Minister  of  Wesson)  my  lands, 
tenements  &c.  in  Ansley  in  the  parish  of  Rolleston,  Staff.,  his  mother  to 
receive  the  rents  during  her  Widowhood  and  have  her  habitation  in  the 
dwelling  house  there.  To  my  nephew  Henry  Boylson,  brother  of  said 
John,  my  lands  aud  tenements  &c.  called  Lawrence  Hey,  in  Rollston  afore- 
said. To  Richard  Boylston  my  messuage  wherein  I  now  dwell,  in  Fan- 
church  Street  London,  out  of  which  he  shall  pay  to  my  old  maid  Margery, 
during  her  life,  a  yearly  sum  of  ten  pounds,  by  fifty  shillings  a  quarter.  I 
give  to  my  sister  in  law,  widow  of  John  Boylson  deceased,  five  pounds.  To 
my  sister  Jane  Cotehett,  widow,  at  Burton,  fifty  pounds.  To  my  sister 
Katherine  Jackson  twenty  pounds.  To  my  brother  Jackson,  her  husband, 
five  pounds.  To  my  kinsman  Samuel  Brackley  and  his  wife  one  hundred 
pounds  and  to  their  daughter  thirty  pounds.  To  the  sons  of  my  said  brother 
John  deceased  I  give  as  followeth,  viz'  to  Edward  Boylston,  who  was  mine 
apprentice,  five  hundred  pounds,  so  as  he  discharge  his  brother  Thomas 
Boylson,  pewterer,  of  all  such  money  as  he  now  oweth  unto  him,  otherwise 
so  much  abated  out  of  the  five  hundred;  to  the  said  Thomas  three  hundred 
pounds  over  and  above  that  whieh  is  to  be  abated  out  of  the  said  five  hun- 
dred pounds,  and  the  lease  of  the  house  wherein  he  dwelleth,in  Fanchurch 
Street.  To  William  Boylson  lately  apprentice  with  his  brother,  the  said 
Thomas  Boylson  pewterer,  three  hundred  pounds.  To  my  kinswoman 
Mary,  now  wife  of  William  Ball,  one  hundred  pounds  and  to  her  husband 
five  pounds.  To  Catharine  Boylson  one  hundred  pounds.  To  Elizabeth 
Boylson  one  hundred  pounds.  To  Thomas  Boylson,  son  of  my  brother 
Edward  Boylson  deceased,  and  to  his  wife  and  children  (the  said  Thomas 
being  a  bad  husband)  eight  huudred  pounds,  to  remain  in  my  executor's 

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10G  Genealogical  Gleanings  in  England.  [Jan. 

hands,  to  be  paid  &c.  in  his  good  discretion.  To  Thomas  Jennings,  son  of 
Robert  Jennings,  who  was  mine  apprentice  and  is  now  my  partner,  two 
hundred  and  fifty  pounds,  desiring  my  executor  to  have  a  care  of  him,  that 
he  be  brought  up  iu  the  fear  of  God.  My  will  is  that  his  father,  Robert 
Jennings,  shall  remain  partner  with  the  said  Edward  and  Richard  Boylsou 
and  five  years  more  &c.  To  the  said  Robert  Jennings  fifty  pounds.  To 
the  daughter  of  my  late  brother  in  law  Thomas  Ducksberry  ten  pounds. 
To  the  widow  of  Thomas  Ducksberry,  sou  of  the  said  Thomas  deceased, 
twenty  pounds.  To  her  daughter  Elizabeth  Ducksberry,  which  lived  with 
me,  fifty  pounds.  To  her  other  daughter,  Mary  Ducksberry,  thirty  pounds. 
To  the  widow  of  William  Hewes  five  pounds.  To  Margaret  Gooday,  for 
herself  and  her  son  George,  thirty  pounds.  To  the  widow  of  Daniel  Hewes 
five  pounds.  To  the  Parish  fifty  pounds.  To  the  said  John  Boylson  one 
hundred  pounds  and  to  his  wife  twenty  pounds.  To  the  said  Richard 
Boylson  one  hundred  pounds.  The  rest  and  residue  of  my  personal  estate 
to  my  said  kinsman  Richard  Boylsou  and  I  make  him  sole  executor.  I 
name  and  entreat  my  loving  friends  Mr  Thomas  Burnell  and  Mr.  Talbot 
Fitch  to  be  overseers,  and  give  to  the  first  twenty  pounds  and  to  the  other 
ten  pounds. 

A  codicil  was  added  17  July  1G48.  Essex,  128. 

Jaxe  Breare  of  London,  widow,  29  May  1665,  proved  15  June  1665. 
Reference  to  a  debt  of  two  hundred  pounds  due  by  bond  from  one  Jonathan 
Newton.  Testatrix  indebted  to  cousin  Thomas  Blamer  one  hundred  and 
sixteen  pounds.  To  my  uncle  Thomas  Boylstone  and  to  Katherine  his 
wife  ten  pounds  apiece.  To  my  cousins  Elizabeth  Smith  and  Anne  Boyl- 
stoue,  daughters  of  the  said  Thomas  Boylstone  and  Katherine  his  wife,  ten 
pounds  apiece.  I  have  a  bond  from  my  father  John  Butten  for  payment  of 
two  hundred  and  fifty  pounds.  Out  of  it  I  give  to  my  sister  Mary  Butten 
one  hundred  and  fifty  pounds  and  to  my  sister  Katherine  Butten  one  hun- 
dred pounds.  I  give  to  my  father  my  silver  tankard  and  six  silver  spoons 
and  to  my  mother,  Katherine  Butten  my  diamond  ring.  To  Jane  Rycroft 
twenty  shillings.  To  John  Marshall  and  Nicholas  Beebee  ten  shillings 
apiece.  To  John  Becke  five  shillings.  The  said  Jane  Rycroft,  John  Mar- 
shall, Nicholas  Beebee  and  John  Becke  being  the  servants  of  the  said 
Thomas  Boylstone.  To  the  said  Ann  Boylston,  my  cousin,  my  gold  ring 
enamelled  with  blue.  The  residue  to  my  uncle  Thomas  Boylstone,  whom 
I  make  sole  executor  &c.  Hyde,  60. 

Thomas  Boylston,  citizen  and  cooper  of  London,  11  July  1668.  proved 
7  December  1668.  My  body  to  be  buried  at  the  discretion  of  wife  Kath- 
erine, whom  I  make  sole  executrix,  and  she  shall  bestow  but  one  hundred 
pounds  upon  my  funeral.  My  wife  shall  receive  the  rents  &c.  of  my  mes- 
suage or  tenement,  with  the  yard,  garden  &c,  wherein  I  now  dwell,  and  the 
rents  &c.  of  the  tenement  now  in  the  occupation  of  Robert  Dix,  in  the 
parish  of  St.  Gabriel  Fauchurch  in  London,  which  I  lately  purchased  of 
Sir  John  Lee,  until  my  son  Allen  Boylston  shall  attain  the  full  age  of  one 
and  twenty  years,  towards  the  maintenance  of  herself  and  my  said  'son ; 
and,  after  he  shall  attain  his  said  age,  then  the  full  moiety  of  the  said  mes- 
suage &c.  wherein  I  now  dwell  unto  my  said  wife,  so  long  as  she  shall  re- 
main my  widow,  for  her  own  habitation,  with  her  family  only.  The  other 
moiety  I  give  to  my  sou  Allen  Boylstoo.  I  give  so  much  of  the  said  mes- 
suages &c.  whereof  I  am  seized  in  fee  simple,  immediately  after  the  de- 


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termination  of  the  estate  and  estates  hereby  given  unto  my  said  wife,  unto 
my  son  Samuel  and  my  daughter  Anne  Boylston  forever,  to  be  parted  and 
divided  betwixt  them,  and  so  much  as  I  hold  by  lease  I  give  to  them  dur- 
ing my  lease.  (Other  property  in  the  same  parish  bequeathed.)  I  give  to 
my  wife  Catherine  the  rents  &c.  of  my  messuages,  lands  <fcc.  which  I  pur- 
chased of  my  brother  Henry  Boylston,  being  iu  the  City  of  Lichfield,  and 
of  a  house  and  land  at  or  near  Fenny  Stratford  in  Bucks  which  I  bought  of 
one  John  Sotners,  until  my  daughter  Anne  attain  her  full  age  of  one  and 
twenty  or  be  married.  After  that  I  give  them  to  Anne.  In  the  event  of 
the  said  three  children  dying  before  attaining  full  age  &c.  I  give  my  said 
messuages  &c.  to  my  daughter  Elizabeth  Smyth  and  all  her  children,  she 
to  pay  to  my  said  brother  Henry  Boylston  one  thousand  pounds.  The  per- 
sonal estate  to  be  divided  into  three  equal  parts  (according  to  the  Custom 
of  the  City  of  London)  of  which  one  third  to  my  wife  another  third  to  my 
said  three  children,  Allen,  Samuel  and  Anne  (my  said  daughter  Elizabeth 
Smith  having  already  received  her  portion  upon  her  marriage)  and  the 
remaining  third  is  at  my  own  disposing.  Then  follow  certain  bequests,, 
among  which  one  to  son  in  law  John  Smith  and  Eiizabeth  his  wife,  and  to- 
grandchildren  John  and  Thomas  Smith  and  Catherine  Smyth,  to  sister 
Anne  Serjeant,  to  the  poor  in  the  Almshouses,  belonging  to  the  Company  of 
Coopers  of  London,  at  Radcliffe,  to  the  poor  of  Lichfield  (on  S'  Thomas' 
day)  and  to  Francis  Rose  and  John  Marshall.  Reference  to  a  gift  made 
by  an  aunt  Sibell  Allen  deceased  to  testator's  children  and  a  bond  given  to- 
cousin  Thomas  Marshall  that  this  gift  shall  be  discharged.  "Wife  Catherine 
to  be  executrix.  Hene,  152. 

Thomas  Boylston  of  Bewdley  in  the  Co.  of  Worcester  gen',  29  August 
1667,  proved  16  July  1669.  I  give  &c.  all  my  goods  &c.  to  my  dear  and 
loving  wife  Alice  and  make  her  my  sole  executrix  &c. 

Among  the  witnesses  were  Margaret  Boylston,  Mary  Boylston  and  Su- 
sanna Boylston.  Coke,  82. 

Edward  Boylston  of  St.  Gabriel,  Fenchurch,  London,  citizen  and 
cloth  worker  of  London,  11  December  1675,  proved  20  December  1675. 
My  body  to  be  buried  in  the  parish  church  of  St.  Dionis  Backchurch  Lon- 
don, in  or  near  the  grave  of  my  uncle  Mr.  Thomas  Boylston,  there  interred.. 
To  my  sister  M™  Sarah  Boylston,  the  widow  of  my  brother  Mr.  Richard 
Boylston  deceased,  five  hundred  pounds.  To  the  eight  children  which  she 
had  by  my  said  brother,  her  late  husband,  one  hundred  pounds  apiece-  To- 
every  of  the  children  of  my  brother  Henry  Boylston  one  hundred  pounds 
apiece.  To  every  of  the  children  of  my  sister  Elizabeth  Wakefield  one- 
hundred  pounds  apieee.  To  my  brother  John  Boylston,  Doctor  in  Divinity, 
one  hundred  pounds.  To  my  loving  friend  John  AIsop  of  St.  Dionis,  &c, 
scrivener,  fifty  pounds,  and  also  ten  pounds  to  buy  him  mourning,  to  be- 
woru  at  my  funeral.  The  residue  to  my  friend  Thomas  StausaH,  citizen 
and  clothworker  of  London,  whom  I  appoint  sole  executor.     Dycer,  122. 

[The  following  extracts  are  from  the  Register  Book  of  St.  Dionis  Eackchurch,. 
Loudon  (vol.  3  of  the  Register  Series  of  the  Harleian  Society's  Publications). 
The  wills  of  the  persons  whose  names  are  iu  italics  are  printed  in  this  group. 
Chr^teninjrs  St.  Dionis  Backchurch. 
12  Feb.  1C.14  }  5,  Thomas  son  of  Edward  Boylson. 
30  June  una  Edward  "     " 

3  May  1618  John  "     " 

12  Dec.  1619,  Elizabeth  dau.     "        " 


108  "   Genealogical  Gleanings  in  England.  [Jan. 

Burials. 

11  May  1G21,  Anne  wife  of  Edward  Boylson  buried. 

22  Aug.  1623,  Edward  Boylsonne  buried. 
6  Sept.  1C25,  Johu  Boylson  and  Edward  Boylsoune,  sons  of  Edward  Boyl- 
soune,  buried. 

18  Aug.  1648,  Thomas  Boylston  of  Fenehurch  parish,  buried. 

29  Dec.  1675  Edward  Boylston,  brought  from  the  St.  Gabricll  Fenehurch, 
buried  in  the  North  Isle,  10  feet  deep. 

They  are  evidently  the  New  Eugland  family  of  Boylstons,  a  pedigree  of 
which,  by  Thomas  B.  Wyman,  is  printed  in  the  Register,  vol.  7,  pp.  145-50. 
Thomas  Boylston  the  ancestor  of  tne  New  England  family  came  here  in  the 
Defence  in  1635,  aged  20.  and  settled  at  Watertown.  In  a  deed  dated  26th  of  the 
5th  mo.  1652,  he  names  his  kinsman  "  Richard  Boyson,"  citizen  and  cloth-worker 
of  London.  See  Suffolk  Deeds,  vol.  i,  p.  247.  See  also  Bond's  Watertown 
and  Wymans  Charlestown,  under  Boylston. — Editor.] 

William  Harman  of  Moore  Hall  in  the  parish  of  Sutton  Canfield,  in 
the  County  of  Warwick,  gen',  1  August  1592,  proved  9  October  1592.  To 
be  buried  in  Sutton  church  at  the  feet  of  my  cousin  Francis  Atkinson  late 
deceased.  I  have  dwelt  the  most  part  of  my  time  at  Hampton  in  Arden, 
in  the  County  Warwick.  To  Thomas  Wyrley  son  to  Thomas  YVyrley.  late 
deceased  Esq.,  and  Dorothy  his  wife,  my  sister,  five  pounds.  Ellinor  At- 
kinson daughter  to  Thomas  Atkinson  and  Elizabeth  his  wife,  both  late  de- 
ceased.    Abraham  Harman  alias  Cupp  my  reputed  son. 

I  give  and  bequeath  unto  my  "  cozenn"  Mr.  Henry  Sewell  of  Coventrie, 
alderman,  four  pounds  and  to  Mr.  Henry  Briers  of  Coventry,  alderman, 
four  pouuds,  whom  I  do  constitute  and  make  my  overseers  of  this  my  last 
will  and  testament.  The  residue  to  Sibell  Foxall,  widow,  late  wife  to 
Richard  Foxall  of  Coventry,  mercer,  late  deceased,  whom  I  make  my  sole 
executrix  &c.  Harrington,  177. 

[William  Harman,  son  of  Hugh  of  Morehall :  his  elder  brother  John  married 
Sibbell  Fowler;  on  his  decease  she  doubtless  married  Richard  Foxall.  Their 
sister  Dorothy  married  Thomas  Wirley  of  Hampsted  in  Staffordshire. 

For  the  pedigree  of  this  family,  see  Harleian  Society's  Vol.  XII.  Visitation 
of  Warwickshire,  p.  105. 

Henry  Sewall  mentioned  in  the  will,  married  Margaret  Grazebrook,  daughter 
of  Margaret  (Keerte)  Grazebrook,  a  greatniece  of  Hugh  Harman,  probably  by  his 
sister  Margaret  (Harman)  Luson;  hence  the  relationship  mentioned  of  cousin. 
See  Salisbury  Memorial,  Ft.  1,  p.  156. — Walter  K.  Wations.] 

William  Hall  of  Borton  in  the  parish  of  Crepredie,  6  August  1596, 
proved  21  October  1596.  My  two  daughters  Joane  and  Mary  Haull.  My 
son  William  Haull.  If  my  wife  marry  before  my  son  be  at  the  age  of 
twenty  one  years  she  shall  deliver  these  things  before  mentioned  (certain 
personal  property)  unto  Henry  Sewell  my  brother  in  law,  whom  I  do  will 
shall  have  the  education  and  bringing  up  of  my  said  son  William  from  the 
time  of  her  marriage  until  he  shall  accomplish  the  age  of  twenty  one  years 
&c.     John  Haull  (a  brother).     Henry  Showell  a  witness.  Drake,  69. 

[William  Hall  was  probably  of  the  Hall  family  of  Oxfordshire,  of  which  a 
partial  pedigree  of  the  Banbury  branch  of  the  family  is  given  in  Harleian 
Society  publications,  regular  series,  vol.  5. — W.  K.  Watklss.] 

Johane  Brownell  of  St.  Michael  the  Archangel,  Coventry,  widow,  22 
July  1588,  proved  22  April  1590.  To  be  buried  in  the  parish  church  of 
St.  Michael  near  unto  my  late  husband  there.  My  son  William.  My  son 
Sampson  Brownell.  My  sou  in  law  Robert  Bagnalde  and  Margaret  his 
wife,  my  daughter.  Their  children  Elizabeth  Bagnalde  and  Edmoud  Bag- 
nalde and  the  other  six,  Ellen,  Thomas,  Wynifred,  Robert,  Francis  and 
Richard.     Richard  Butler  and  Elizabeth  my  daughter.     I  give  to  the  said 


1894.]  Genealogical  Gleaningsui  England.  109 

Elizabeth  my  gold  ring  with  five  stones  fixed  in  the  same  and  my  little 
beer  pot  gilt.  To  Richard  Butler  and  Elizabeth  their  daughter,  to  either 
of  them  one  silver  spoon  with  a  "  Lyou  "  on  the  end  of  them  and  to  Rachel 
their  daughter  five  shillings  in  money.  Thomas  Salter,  my  son  in  law,  and 
Sence  his  wife.  Johane  their  daughter.  To  my  sister  Alice  Saunders  a 
white  silver  pot  with  a  cover  and  to  Richard  Shewell  my  godson  a  silver 
spoon  with  a  maiden  head  upon  it;  and  to  Anne  Howcott  my  goddaughter 
a  silver  spoon  with  a  maiden  head  upon  it.  The  poor  of  the  said  city.  To 
my  "  coocen  "  Samuel  Saunders  a  hoop  ring  of  gold  with  these  letters  upon 
it  T.  M.  E.  I  do  give  and  bequeath  to  my  cousin  Joice  Shewell  a  hoop 
ring  of  gold.  To  the  said  Robert  Bagnalde  and  Margaret  his  wife  a  stone 
pot  garnished  with  silver,  with  a  cover  gilt  without,  a  ring  of  silver  and 
gilt  about  the  neck  thereof.  My  will  is  that  my  daughter  Margaret  should 
have  the  cover  of  the  standing  cup  which  my  husband  did  give  her.  My 
cousins  Richard  Saunders,  Thomas  Saunders,  Isabel  Saunders  and  Bridget 
Saunders.  My  said  two  daughters  Margaret  and  Elizabeth.  My  said  son 
William  Brownell  to  be  full  and  sole  executor.  Drury,  24. 

William  Sewall  of  the  city  of  Coventry,  vintner,  29  June  1624, 
proved  11  September  1624.  To  be  buried  in  the  parish  church  of  St.. 
Michael's  Coventry.  .  Elizabeth  Symes,  wife  of  Thomas  Symes  of  Coven- 
try brasier,  and  Anne  Sewall  both  natural  daughters  of  me  the  said  William 
Sewall  to  be  mine  executors.  To  Elizabeth  my  messuage  in  the  High 
Street  wherein  I  now  dwell,  with  the  shops  thereunto  belonging  &c.  (and 
other  property).  Reference  to  a  deed,  bearing  date  17  December  17 
James,  made  between  Samuel  Miles  of  the  one  part  and  me  the  said  Wil- 
liam, hj  the  name  of  William  Sewall  of  the  city  of  Coventry  draper,  of  the 
other  part.  To  my  said  daughter  Anne  the  messuage  &c.  now  or  lately  in 
the  tenure  of  Agnes  Dudly,  widow,  or  her  assigns  (and  other  property). 
A  messuage  in  Well  Street  in  the  tenure  of  Richard  Saunders,  baker. 
Samuel  Siraes  my  godson,  one  of  the  sons  of  my  son  in  law  Thomas  Symes. 
John,  Thomas,  Ellen  and  Elizabeth  Symes  (other)  sons  and  daughters  of 
Thomas  Symes  my  son  and  Ellizabeth  his  wife.     Others. 

I  give  and  bequeath  to  my  brother  Henry  Sewall  and  Margaret  his  wife 
twenty  shilllings  apiece.  To  my  sister  Gibbous,  wife  of  Mr.  William  Gib- 
bons, to  buy  her  a  ring  in  which  my  name  shall  be  engraven,  forty  shillings. 
To  my  daughter  Lucy  Tadlowe,  wife  of  Mr.  Henry  Tadlowe,  three  pounds 
six  shillings  eight  pence  to  buy  her  a  cup  of  plate  on  which  my  name  shall 
be  cut.  To  the  band  of  Artillery  soldiers  in  Coventry  forty  shillings  to  buy 
them  powder,  to  be  paid  them  upon  the  day  of  my  funeral.  Bequests  to 
the  poor  in  Bablacke  &e.  My  two  kinsmen  Henry  and  Richard  Sewall, 
sons  of  my  brother  Henry  Sewall.  Byrde,  79. 

Akthoxy  Power  of  Kenellworth,  Warwick,  gen*,  21  December  1632, 
proved  1  May  1 633.  To  Anne  Power,  my  beloved  wife,  all  my  right  and 
title  that  I  have  by  virtue  of  any  mortagege  &c.  to  this  intent  that  she  shall 
be  a  good  mother  to  my  younger  children  to  raise  them  portions  and  that 
my  eldest  son  shall  have  no  hand  in  the  forenamed  mortgages.  My  two 
daughters  Hanna  and  Mary  Power.  Stephen  Power  my  second  son. 
William  Power  my  third  son.  Anthony  Power  my  fourth  son.  My  brother 
Thomas  Power.  To  Henry  Power  my  eldest  son  all  my  inheritance  lands 
in  Kenellworth  and  my  signet  gold  ring.  Wife  Anne  to  be  executrix  and 
my  friends  Thomas  Devis  and  Thomas  Wright,  both  of  Kenellworth,  yeo- 
men, to  be  overseers. 

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110  •  Genealogical  Gleanings  in  England.  [Jan. 

Commission  issued,  1  May  1633,  to  Richard  Sewell,  uncle  (avunculo)  of 
Stephen  Power,  son  and  executor  of  the  will  of  Anne  Power  deceased  who 
while  living  was  relict  and  executrix  of  the  above  Anthony  Power  de- 
ceased &c. 

Commission  issued,  11  May  1640,  to  Stephen  Power  (the  son)  to  ad- 
minister de  bonis  non,  Richard  Sewell  the  former  administrator  being  now 
also  dead.  Russell,  33. 

Anne  Power  of  Kenellworth,  Warwick,  widow,  15  January  1632. 
William  Power  my  third  son.  Anthony  Power  my  fourth  son.  My  two 
daughters  Manna  and  Mary  Power.  My  brother  in  law  William  Power. 
My  two  brothers  in  law  Thomas  Power  and  George  Hill.  Mr.  Henry 
Wright,  Richard  Walton  and  Elizabeth  Ambler.  The  poor  of  the  Aug- 
mentation. Henry  West  my  brother  in  law.  Mr.  Francis  Phippes  Mr. 
Richard  Shewell  Mr.  Abraham  Randall  and  William  Power  my  brothers 
and  dear  friends. 

Administration  granted,  1  May  1633,  to  Richard  Sewell  uncle  of  Stephen 
Power  the  natural  and  lawful  son  of  the  deceased  during  his  minority. 
The  will  was  proved  5  February  1638  by  Stephen  Power  the  son  &c. 

Russell,  39. 

Margaret  Randell  of  the  City  of  Coventry,  widow,  4  May  1646 
proved  22  May  16-16.  To  be  buried  in  the  Drapers'  Chapel  within  St. 
Michael's  Church,  Coventry,  near  the  bodies  of  my  father  and  mother.  My 
nephew  Stephen  Power.  My  two  nieces,  the  daughters  of  my  sister  Power, 
namely  Hannah  Lee,  the  wife  of  Thomas  Lee,  and  Mary  Holbech,  the  wife 
of  Amilian  Holbech.  My  nephew  Anthony  Power.  To  my  nephew  Samuel 
Sewall,  son  of  my  brother  Richard  Sewall,  my  close  or  pasture  called 
Quarry  field,  without  Newgate  on  the  West  side  of  the  Cawsey  or  pave- 
ment leading  from  Coventry  towards  Whitley  on  the  London  road.  To  my 
niece  Elizabeth  Seires,  daughter  of  my  brother  Richard  Sewall  and  wife  of 
Edmocd  Seires,  my  close  &c.  on  the  back  side  of  the  said  Cawsey.  To  my 
niece  Anne  Sewall,  daughter  of  my  brother  Richard  Sewall  a  tenement  on 
the  south  side  of  St.  Michael's  Church.  Another  tenement  to  niece  Pru- 
dence Sewall,  daughter  of  my  said  brother  Richard.  To  my  nephew  Stephen 
Power  my  parcel  of  land  called  Rowley  Hill  in  Stoke,  in  the  County  of  the 
city  of  Coventry.  The  residue  to  Stephen  Power,  Hannah  Lee  Mary  Hol- 
bech and  Prudence  Sewall  equally.  The  said  Stephen  Power  to  be  sole 
executor. 

John  Brownell  one  of  the  witnesses.  Twisse,  59. 

Stephen  Power  of  Kennelworth,  Warwick,  gens,  25  July  1648  proved 
15  May  1655.  To  my  brother  in  law  Thomas  Lee  of  Kennelworth,  gent', 
the  yearly  rent  arising  out  of  certain  lands  near  Coventry  called  Barons 
Fields  (in  trust).  My  brother  Henry  Power.  The  said  Thomas  Lee's 
children.  The  two  children  of  my  sister  Mary  Holbech.  My  brother  Wil- 
liam Power.  My  uncle  Thomas  Power.  The  poor  of  Kilfmgworth  [sic~\ 
aforesaid.  My  brother  Anthony  Power.  As  for  my  debts  owing  to  me  by 
the  State  of  England  for  arrears  due  to  me  for  my  service  as  a  soldier,  being 
two  debentures,  one  of  them  of  two  hundred  forty  five  pounds  nine  shillings 
two  pence,  the  other  of  thirty  seven  pounds  or  thereabouts  now  in  the 
hands  or  custody  of  my  cousin  Valeutiue  Hill,  I  devise  and  bequeath  the 
same  as  followeth:  seven  pounds  thereof  to  the  said  Valentine  Hill,  twenty 
pounds  to  William  Pynson  of  Coventry,  gen',  five  pounds  to  my  said  uncle 


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Power  and  the  rest  to  my  three  brothers  and  two  sisters,  to  be  equally 
divided  amongst  them.  I  am  engaged  and  stand  bound,  as  surety  with  the 
said  Valentine  Hill  and  for  the  proper  debt  of  the  said  Valentine,  uuto 
Major  Tackington,  in  the  sum  of  twenty  pounds  for  the  payment  of  ten 
pounds  6zc.  My  brother  Thomas  Lee  to  be  sole  executor  and  my  brother 
Henry  Power  and  my  brother  Amiliyou  Holbech  to  be  overseers. 

Aylett,  144. 

[The  preceding  eight  wills  seem  to  refer  to  the  Sewall  family  of  Coventry 
(England)  to  whom  the  father  of  Judge  Samuel  Sewall  of  Boston  and  Major 
Stephen  Sewall  of  Salem  belonged,.  Henry  F.  Waters. 

William  Sewall,  whose  will  is  given,  was  brother  of  Henry  Sewall  the  Mayor 
of  Coventry  15S9  and  160G,  who  was  the  great-grandfather  of  Chief  Justice 
Samuel  Sewall  of  Boston.  Anne,  wife  of  Anthony  Power  and  mother  of 
Stephen  Power,  was  a  daughter  of  Henry  Sewall,  Mayor  of  Coventry,  as  was 
also  Margaret  wife  of  Abraham  Randall. 

A  pedigree  of  the  Sewall  family,  compiled  by  Mr.  William  H.  Whitmore,  can 
be  found  on  pp.  xi.  to  xxi.  of  the  introduction  to  the  Sewall's  Diary,  published 
in  Mass.  Hist.  Coll..  Fifth  Series,  Vol.  V. 

Prof.  E.  E.  Salisbury,  LL.D..  has  also  given  a  pedigree  in  Vol.  I.  of  the 
Salisbury  Memorial,  and  also  referred  to  these  wills. — Walter  K.  Watkins.] 

William  Blande  of  London  gentleman.  31  July  1596,  proved  17  Sep- 
tember 1596.  My  body  to  be  buried  at  Whitechapel  with  my  two  children. 
Two  parts  of  my  land  of  my  manor  of  Tattingston  to  be  sold  by  my  execu- 
trix and  all  my  goods  &c.  to  be  sold  towards  the  payment  of  my  debts.  My 
debts  paid,  of  the  overplus  my  wife  Judith  shall  have  the  one  moiety,  and 
my  son  William  to  have  the  third  part  and  the  child  that  she  now  goeth 
withall  to  have,  the  other  fourth  part.  My  wife  Judith  to  be  executrix,  and 
I  do  request  my  brother  Thomas  to  be  my  overseer. 

Thomas  Blande  was  one  of  the  witnesses. 

Confirmed  by  sentence  diiriuitive  the  second  session  of  the  Paschal  Term 
A.D.  1600.  Drake,  63. 

Elizabeth  Bland,  now  wife  of  Thomas  Bland  of  St.  Martin's  within 
Ludgate,  gen1.,  and  late  executrix  of  the  last  will  and  testament  of  Mar- 
garet Smithe  my  late  mother  deceased.  Will  made  19  July  1593  aud  proved 
20  July  1593.  One  hundred  pounds  to  be  divided  amongst  my  children 
had  by  my  late  husband  William  Yeardly,  gen',  deceased,  viz'  Jasper  Yeard- 
ley,  Margaret  Yeardley,  Anne  Yeardly,  Elizabeth  Yeardley  and  Mary 
Yeardley,  to  be  paid  at  days  of  marriage  &c.  To  my  brother  Michael 
Harrison's  children.  My  sister  Sara  Sawle.  To  Alice  Haiwarde  for  her 
pains  taken  with  me.  My  Aunt  Alice  Eccles.  My  husband  Thomas 
Bland  to  be  my  whole  executor.  Nevell,  57. 

Thomas  Bland  of  Suudridge,  Kent,  gen',  18  Nouember  1617,  proved 
15  May  1618.  The  poor  of  Suudridge  and  of  St.  Bennet's  near  Paul's 
Wharf.  The  children  of  my  brother  John  Bland  and  of  my  brother  Greg- 
ory Bland.  My  sister  Elizabeth  Burye  and  her  children.  My  god  daugh- 
ter Judith  Gilbie  and  the  children  of  my  sister  Gilbie.  My  god  daughter 
Jone  Hope.  My  daughter  in  law  Ellen  Lewis,  Margaret  Bail  and  Euame 
Whitlatche.  My  brother  Peter  Blande  and  his  children.  My  wife  Mary. 
My  son  George  Blande.  My  daughter  Elizabeth  Blande.  My  wife  to 
have  the  occupation  and  use  of  the  house  and  lauds  which  I  hold  by  lease 
of  Mrs.  Cranwell  and  her  son.  My  son  George  to  be  executor  and  I  do 
nominate  as  overseers  my  sons  in  law  William  Ball  and  John  Lewis  and 
John  Blande.     To  son  George  my  messuages  &c.  in  the  parishes  of  St. 


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Peter's  and  St.  Bennet's  near  Paul's  Wharf,  with  remainder  to  the  heir 
male  of  my  brother  John  Blande,  and  next  to  my  right  heirs.  My  mes- 
suages in  Shoreditch  to  my  son  George  and  his  son  Thomas  Blande.  John 
Sale  referred  to.  The  children  of  my  son  in  law  William  Ball.  My 
daughter  in  law  Margaret  Sale.  My  son  in  law  Jasper  Yardley  and  my 
daughters  in  law  Elizabeth  Cooper  and  Mary  Yardley. 

"Wit.  John  Blande,  Thomas  Langhorne,  Elizabeth  Blande,  the  mark  of 
Raphe  Farrington  and  the  mark  of  Sibbell  Farrington,  his  wife. 

Meade,  47. 

[A  pedigree  of  this  family  of  Bland  appears  in  the  Visitation  of  London, 
1633-4  (Harleian  So.  Pub.,  Vol.  1.  p,  79).  To  it  evidently  belonged  the  Virginia 
family  of  that  name,  and  perhaps  the  Maryland  family.  The  following  notes 
relate  to  these  families.  The  printed  Itegisters  of  the  parish  of  St.  Ant holins, 
London  (also  published  by  the  Harleian  Society),  give  baptisms  &.c.  of  the 
family  of  John  Bland,  the  father  of  the  Virginians.  Henry  F.  Waters.] 

Jon.v  Blaxde  of  London,  grocer,  24  September  1627,  proved  20  April 
1632.  I  will  that  my  body  be  decently  carried  to  the  church  betweeu  3 
and  4  clock  in  the  afternoon  with  some  few  of  my  friends  and  neighbors 
and  buried  in  the  parish  church  of  S*  Antholin's  where  I  dwell.  I  will  uot 
have  above  fifty  pounds  bestowed  at  the  most  upon  my  said  burial  besides 
mourning  for  my  children  and  others.  Gifts  to  Christ  Hospital  and  to 
poor  prisoners.  According  to  the  city  of  London  laws  my  wife  is  to  have 
the  thirds  of  my  estate  and  the  other  third  my  children,  and  the  other  third 
is  at  my  dispose.  Out  of  my  third  I  bequeath  unto  my  well  beloved  wife 
Susan  Blande  five  hundred  pounds  towards  her  widowship.  If  she  marry 
then  my  son  Thomas  shall  have  one  hundred  pounds  of  it,  John  fifty  aud 
Susan  Blande,  my  daughter,  fifty  pounds,  if  unmarried;  the  rest  of  the  five 
hundred  pounds  to  be  divided  amongst  the  rest  of  my  children  unmarried, 
by  equal  portions,  at  twenty  one,  the  sons  and  the  daughters  at  eighteen. 
To  daughters  Anne  and  Elizabeth  Blande  twenty  pounds  apiece  over  and 
above  their  parts  of  the  children's  third.  My  wife  Susan  to  allow  her 
mother  fifteen  pounds  per  annum  during  life,  if  she  continues  a  widow,  so 
long  as  her  mother  liveth.  If  she  chanceth  to  marry  aud  her  mother  living 
then  during  my  mother's  life.  The  five  hundred  pounds  bequeathed  to  my 
children  they  shall  enjoy  till  their  grandmother  be  dead  and  buried.  Sous 
Thomas  and  John  and  daughter  Susan  under  twenty  one.  Son  in  law 
Emanuel!  Probie  and  my  daughter  Mary  Probie.  I  give  and  bequeath  my 
Ham  house,  after  my  wife's  decease,  among  my  youngest  children  resting 
from  Edward  Blande  and  so  to  the  youngest,  according  to  a  surrender  1 
make  in  the  court  for  the  use  of  my  will.  Thomas,  John  and  Susan  Blande 
shall  allow  to  their  grandmother  Mary  de  Deblere,  out  of  their  legacies, 
three  pounds  per  cent  per  annum,  for  every  hundred  pounds  so  long  as  she 
shall  live;  and  if  they  be  not  of  age  then  their  legacies  to  be  put  out  to  use 
and  my  mother  to  have  three  per  cent  per  annum  out  of  it,  the  rest  to  be 
towards  the  bringing  them  up  which  are  not  of  years.  To  Grace  Bonde  a 
mourning  gown.  Mr.  Robert  Edwardes'  son  Thomas.  I  give  unto  all  my 
godchildren  twenty  shillings  apiece  except  Lawrence  Lowne'3  daughter  and 
Gregory  Blande's  son  or  daughter,  for  Lownes  played  the  knave  with  me 
and  Gregory  Blande  likewise  deceaved  me,  so  they  nor  theirs  shall  have  one 
penny  of  mine.  To  my  brother  Gillye  forty  shillings,  and  to  each  of  his 
children  by  my  sister  forty  shillings  apiece,  Judith  Lownes  not  to  have  any 
thing,  the  wife  of  Lawrence  Lownes.  To  Bedlam  ten  shillings.  To  St. 
Gregory's  Church  where  I  was  christened,  to  make  a  stock  for  the  poor  to 


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buy  flax  with,  five  pounds.  Similar  bequests  to  St.  Antholin'9  church. 
West  hum  church,  Aldermary  church,  St.  Stephen's  church,  Coleman  St., 
for  the  purchase  of  flax  to  spin  or  woollen  yarn  to  knit.  Johane  Lang- 
borne,  my  cousin  Thomas  Langhorne's  daughter,  Susan  Northers  and 
Frances  Langhorne.  To  my  son  Thomas  Bland  my  gold  seal  ring  with 
my  arms  upon  it.  To  John  my  silver  mark  to  seal  letters  with.  My 
cousin  Samuel  Bland.  My  cousin  William  Blande's  children  and  my 
cousin  Mary;  his  late  wife.  My  cousin  George  Blaude  and  Thomas,  his 
son.  Elizabeth  my  cousin  Holrawood  and  each  of  her  children.  My  sister 
Burie.  Edward  Burye.  Margaret  Everett,  my  sister's  daughter.  Cousin 
Rosse,  my  sister's  daughter.  Elizabeth  Burye,  my  sister's  daughter.  (All 
referred  to  as  sisters  of  cousin  Burye.)  The  Lady  Ilarbert,  my  niece,  and 
each  of  her  children.  My  cousin  Robert  Brawler  and  his  wife  and  daugh- 
ter. Thomas  Northey,  Mr.  Isaac  Jones,  Mr.  William  Cookaine,  John 
Duckett,  Mr.  Isaac  Pennington,  the  Trinity  House  for  old  sailors.  The 
executors  to  be  my  loving  wife  Susan  and  Thomas  my  son  and  John  my 
second  son,  and  the  overseers  to  be  my  son  in  law  Emanuel  Probye,  my 
cousin  Samuel  Blande  Robert  Edwardes  and  Thomas  Northey. 

Audley,  44. 

John  Bland  of  London  merchant,  3  May  1680,  proved  23  June  1680. 
I  do  give  and  bequeath  all  the  jewels  plate  and  household  stuff  belonging 
to  me  to  my  dear  wife  Sarah  Bland,  feeling  no  greater  grief  under  my 
many  adversities  and  infirmities  I  now  labor  under  than  her  necessary 
abseuce  in  Virginia  about  my  unhappy  affairs  and  estates  there,  she  having 
"bin"  the  principal  comfort  of  my  past  life  and  by  her  exemplary  virtue, 
discretion,  affliction  (sic),  prudence  and  patience  having  deserved  much 
more  from  me  than  I  am  able  to  gi'-'e,  being  worthy  of  my  whole  confidence 
and  entire  trust,  which  nevertheless  by  reason  of  the  great  distance  she  is 
now  at  and  the  many  contingencies  and  accidents  which  may  happen  thereby 
I  do  think  fit  by  a  conjunction  with  her  to  commit  to  my  choicest  friend 
Thomas  Povey  Esquire,  one  of  the  Masters  of  Requests  to  the  King's 
Majesty,  who  best  understands  all  my  affairs,  interests  and  intentions,  I  do 
therefore  make  and  constitute  my  said  dear  wife  Sarah  Bland  and  my  said 
worthy  friend  Thomas  Povey  to  be  the  executors  &c.  Many  years  since  I 
purchased  a  house  &c.  at  Tangier  and  have  laid  out  upon  it  several  con- 
siderable sums  of  money  for  the  improvement  thereof.  It  has  been  taken 
and  seized  upon  in  my  absence  and  without  my  privity  by  the  Governor 
there  and  is  still  possessed  and  applied  to  the  service  of  his  Majesty,  for 
which  I  have  not  yet  obtained  satisfaction  &c.  This  entrusted  to  Thomas 
Povey.  All  other  lands  and  tenements  &c.  to  the  two  executors,  who  are 
to  raise  money  to  pay  the  debts  I  shall  be  found  to  owe  and  a  competent 
provision  for  my  daughter  in  law  Frances  Bland  and  my  grandson  John 
Bland,  her  son,  yet  being  in  his  infancy. 

The  first  grant  of  probate  was  made,  as  above,  to  Thomas  Povey,  power 
reserved  for  Sarah  Bland,  the  widow,  to  whom  a  grant  of  probate  was  issued 
27  May  1682.  Bath,  76. 

Thomas  Bland  of  London,  gen*  26  August  1674,  with  a  codicil  dated 
30  October,  1674,  proved  29  January  1674.  To  my  grand  children  Jane 
and  Sarah  Moyser  two  hundred  and  fifty  pounds  apiece,  to  be  employed  at 
interest  or  laid  out  in  buying  of  several  annuities  for  them.  To  my  grand- 
son Joseph  Day  fifty  pounds,  to  be  employed  to  put  him  out  to  some  decent 


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calling  when  he  shall  attain  to  fifteen  years  of  age.  To  my  daughter  Sarah 
Day  tiie  wife  of  Joseph  Day  one  aunuity  or  yearly  rent  charge  of  ten 
pounds  by  the  year  during  her  natural  life,  issuable  and  payable  out  of  my 
lands  and  tenement  at  Mildenhall  iu  Suffolk.  I  give  to  my  son  in  law 
Joseph  Day  and  Sarah  his  wife  ten  pounds  apiece  to  buy  them  mourning. 
I  appoint  my  sou  Richard  Bland  and  my  sou  iu  law  Joseph  Day  and  Sarah 
his  wife  to  be  executors  and  do  appoint  them  to  give  all  my  linen  to  my 
grandchildren. 

Iu  the  codicil  he  speaks  of  his  grandson  Joseph  Dav  as  "  now  deceased." 

Dycer,  2. 

Thomas  Bland  of  London,  merchant,  25  November  1700,  proved  13 
January  1700.  To  my  sister  Sarah  Day  ten  pounds  every  year  during  her 
natural  life,  she  was  living   with   my   executors.      Ten   pounds   to   Mary 

Keemish  if  she  shall  live  to  be  lawfully  married.     Ten  pounds  to  

Keenish,  ray  sister's  grandson,  at  one  and  twenty.  Twenty  pounds  each  to 
Sarah  and  Margaret  Bland,  my  brother's  two  daughters  if  they  live  to  be 

lawfully  married.     My  cousin   Lawrauce  "Pendrill.      To  Ann  the 

servant  in  my  cousin  PendriU's  house  forty  shillings.  To  my  said  sister 
Sarah  Day  ten  pounds  for  her  mourning  cloths  at  my  funeral.  To  every 
person  whose  name  is  inserted  on  the  back  of  this  will  one  gold  ring  of  the 
value  about  ten  shillings.  To  my  cousin  Sarah  Pindrell  the  wife  of  Mr.  Law- 
rance  Pindrell  all  my  lands,  plantations  mortgages,  houses,  tobacco  houses 
&c.  in  Ann  Arundell  County  in  the  Province  of  Maryland,  and  also  (after 
the  payment  or  other  accomplishment  of  the  said  contingent  legacies)  all  my 
negroes,  cattle,  horses,  mares,  household  stuff,  debts  in  money  and  tobacco, 
ready  money,  plate,  goods  and  chattels  whatsover,  either  in  England  or 
Maryland  or  elsewhere.  And  I  make  my  cousin  Lawrance  Pindrell  and 
Sarah  his  wife  my  sole  executors.  Dyer,  2. 

July  1652.  The  twelvth  day  Adeou  issued  forth  to  John  Bland  ye  nrall 
&  lawful  Brother  of  Edward  Bland  late  in  Vergiuia  Batcbelor  deed  haveing 
goodes  etc.  to  Adster  y°  goodes,  chatties  &  debets  of  ye  said  deed  hee  being 
sworne  freelv  Adster  etc. 

Fol.  134  Admon.  Act  Book,  1G52. 

[John  Bland,  London,  Grocer,  will  proved  1C32,  was  son  of  Adam  and  Jane 
(Atkyns)  Bland.  He  married  Susan  Deblere  or  Duclere  of  the  City  of  Ham- 
bur?,  and  had  twelve  children;  he  is  spoken  of  as  of  Syth  Lane,  Loudon  and 
Plaislow,  Essex,  Eagi. 

Emanuel  Proby  mentioned,  was  fourth  son  of  Sir  Peter  Proby,  Lord  Mayor 
of  Loudon,  afterward  Lord  Carysf ort.  His  sister  Elizabeth  married  Win.  Bury, 
gent. 

William  Blande  of  London,  sent.,  an  elder  brother  of  John,  married  Judith 
Woodery,  daughter  of  Thomas  of  Groby,  Ens.  Elizabeth,  wife  of  Thomas 
Bland  of  St.  Martin's,  was  the  sister-in-law  of  the  above  William  and  John  Bland. 
Her  husband  was  under-sheritl' of  Middlesex.  His  will  follows  hers,  by  which 
we  see  that  he  had  at  least  three  wives;  his  first  was  Alice  Gerniaine.  (See  p. 
147,  Siau-rhter's  History  of  Bristol  Parish,  Va.,  1S79.) 

John  Bland  of  London,  merchant,  whose  will  was  proved  1680,  had  with  other 
issue  Giles  whose  wife  Frances  and  son  John  are  mentioned.  Frances  was 
daughter  of  Thomas  Probey,  [Povey]  Master  of  Requests.  The  wife  of  the 
testator  was  Sarah,  daughter  of  Giles  Green,  a  member  of  Parliament  for  Corfe 
Castle,  Dorset,  time  of  Charles  I.— See  Richmond  Critic,  9  July,  1388. — W.  K. 
Watkins.  ] 

Richard  Bennett  of  Noansamond  River  in  Virginia  15  March  1674, 
proved  3  August  1676.     To  the  parish  where  I  now  live  and  have  so  long 


1894.]  Genealogical  Gleanings  in  England.  115 

lived  three  hundred  acres  which  Thomas  Bolton  holdeth  by  lease  and  on 
which  he  now  lives;  the  rents  to  be  received  yearly  by  the  churchwardens 
of  the  parish  and  disposed  towards  the  relief  of  four  poor  aged  or  im- 
potent persons  whom  they  judge  to  stand  in  most  need  of  help;  and  this 
to  continue  and  be  done  forever  as  long  as  the  laud  continues.  To  Richard, 
son  of  Thomas  Buxton  the  rents  and  profits  of  that  parcel  of  laud  on  which 
Edrnond  Belson  now  liveth,  to  him  and  his  heirs  forever,  the  same  to  be 
paid  unto  him  when  he  shall  come  to  be  twenty  years  of  age;  bnt  if  he 
lives  not  to  that  time  or  afterwards  die  without  issue.  To  my  daughter 
Anne  fifty  pounds  sterling  besides  her  debts  which  she  now  oweth  me.  To 
my  grandchildren  Elizabeth,  Anne  and  Bennett  Scarburgh,  or  any  other  of 
my  daughter  Scarburgh's  children  which  shall  be  born  hereafter,  all  that 
parcel  of  laud  lying  on  Pocomoke  River  on  the  Eastern  shore  in  Maryland, 
being  two  thousand  eight  hundred  acres  by  Patent,  to  them  and  either  of 
them,  their,  or  either  of  their,  heirs  forever,  and  also  two  thousand  five 
hundred  acres  by  Patent,  lying  in  Wiccomoco  River  on  the  Eastern  shore 
in  Maryland.  To  my  cousin  Silvester  the  wife  of  major  Nicholas  Hill 
twelve  thousand  pounds  of  tobacco.  To  my  cousin  Mary  the  wife  of  Mr. 
Luke  Cropley  of  London  twenty  pounds  sterling.  To  Richard  Ilubard  of 
Pigg  Point  one  thousand  pounds  of  tobacco.  To  Michael  Ward  and  the 
widow  of  John  Lewis,  to  each  of  them  one  thousand  pounds  of  tobacco. 
To  Charles  Howard  and  Richard  Higgins,  to  each  of  them  one  thousand 
pounds  of  tobacco,  and,  more  to  Charles  Howard,  the  land  which  he  lives 
of  (sic)  for  eleven  years.  To  John  Chilcotes  and  Thomas  Garratt,  to 
each  of  them  two  thousand  pounds  of  tobacco.  To  William  Kitchen  and 
John  Blye,  to'  each  of  them  one  thousand  pounds  of  tobacco.  To  Pat- 
rick Edmonston  and  the  widow  Reddick,  to  each  of  them  one  thousand 
pounds  of  tobacco.  To  John  Worter  who  married  the  relict  of  John 
Salsbury  one  thousand  pounds  of  tobacco.  To  William  Yearret  of  Pagan 
Creek  and  to  the  wife  of  Mr.  Thomas  Taberer.  to  each  of  them  two 
thousand  pounds  of  tobacco.  To  Elizabeth  Cutland  of  Chuchatuke  Creek 
and  Thomas  Jordan  of  the  same  place,  to  each  of  them  two  thousand 
pounds  of  tobacco.  To  James  Day  twelve  thousand  pounds  of  tobacco. 
And  if  Mr.  Tabbarer  see  cause  he  may  add  three  thousand  more  to  it.  I 
give  to  all  my  servants  that  now  liveth  with  me,  both  Christians  and 
Negroes,  to  each  of  them  one  thousand  pounds  of  tobacco,  only  the  two 
hirelings  excepted,  viz'  Richard  Higgins  and  John  Turner. 

The  rest  of  my  personal  and  real  estate  and  all  lands,  stock,  of  what 
nature  or  kind  soever  it  be,  to  go  to  my  grand  child  Richard  Bennett,  to  him 
and  his  heirs  forever,  my  said  grandchild  now  residing  in  Bristol,  and  in 
default  of  such  heirs  then  to  come  to  the  children  of  Theodarick  Bland  and 
Charles  Scarburgh.  Lastly  I  do  declare  and  ordain  and  appoint  James 
Jofey,  Mr  Thomas  Hodges  and  Edmond  Belson,  or  any  two  of  them,  also 
Robert  Peellee  to  be  overseers. 

Wit:  John  Speire,  En0  Tarle,  Charles  Howard,  George  Davis.  Proved 
in  Nansamond  court  the  twelvth  of  April  1675,  by  the  oaths  of  Mr  En0 
Tarte  (sic)  Charles  Howard  and  George  Davis  to  be  the  last  will  and  testa- 
ment of  Major  General  R:  Bennett.      Teste  Jn°  Lear  Cier:  Cur. 

Bence,  99. 

[Richard  Bennett  was  a  nephew  of  Edward  Bennett,  who  resided  for  a  time 
at  Delft  and  was  largely  engaged  in  the  Virginia  trade,  being  a  member  of  the 
Virginia  company.  The  nephew,  being  his  partner,  came  over  to  supervise  his 
plantations. 


116  Genealogical  Gleanings  in  England.  [Jan. 

Richard  was  a  Burgess  1629  to  1631,  member  of  the  CounciljI642-9,  Governor 
1C52  to  1655  -when  he  -went  to  England  as  agent  for  the  Colony.  Returning  in  a 
few  years  he  held  various  offices,  and  was" in  1606  made  Major  General  of  the 
train  bauds. 

In  1642  he  had  been  one  of  those  Virginia  Puritans  who  had  sent  to  New 
England  for  ministers,  but  in  the  last  part  of  his  life  he  became  a  Quaker. 

His  daughter  Ann  married  Theoderick  Bland,  a  son  of  John  and  Susan 
(Duclere)  Bland,  a  man  said  to  have  been  "in  fortune  and  understanding 
inferior  to  no  man  in  Virginia."  See  Richmond  Critic,  9  July,  1888.  See  also 
note  by  R.  A.  Brock  in  these  Gleanings,  Register,  vol.  42,  p.  394;  and  Appleton's 
Cyclopaedia  of  American  Biography,  vol.  1,  p.  237. — W.  K.  Watkus'S.] 

William  Seabright  of  London  Esq.  19  January  1618,  proved  7 
November  1G20.  To  be  buried  in  the  parish  church  of  St.  Edmund  the 
King  in  Lombard  street,  where  I  do  dwell,  in  the  chancel  withiu  the  vault 
there  where  the  body  of  my  most  dear,  virtuous  and  late  loving  wife  doth 
rest  in  the  Lord,  as  near  unto  her  as  possibly  and  conveniently  may  be 
placed.  My  said  wife's  grandchild  Elizabeth,  the  elder  daughter  of  Sir 
James  Boucher,  knight.  Frances  Boucher  one  of  his  daughters.  My 
godson  Thomas  Boucher,  eldest  son  of  the  said  Sir  James,  James  Boucher, 
his  second  son,  John,  his  third  son,  Richard,  bis  fourth  son,  William,  his  tilth 
son,  and  Henry  Boucher,  the  youngest  of  the  said  Sir  James.  The  good 
will  I  bear  to  every  of  them,  chiefly  for  their  good  grandmother's  sake. 
My  will  and  desire  is  that  after  such  time  as  the  portions  given  to  the  said 
sons  shall  be  paid  by  mine  executors,  then  by  the  judgments  of  my  loving 
and  kind  brother  in  law  Thomas  Morley  their  uncle,  John  Burnell,  Richard 
Brigges,  Edmond  Page  and  Thomas  Freeman  their  friends  and  cousins,  or 
the  more(part  of  them  for  the  time  being,  every  of  their  said  positions  shall 
be  pat  forth  at  use  at  the  best  rates  they  can  upon  as  good  security  as  they 
can  for  every  hundred  pounds  by  the  year  for  aud  towards  their  mainte- 
nance until  such  time  as  the  said  friends  &c.  shall  in  their  discretions  think 
fit.  My  niece  Sarah  Astin  one  of  the  daughters  of  my  late  loving  sister 
Eleanor  Astin,  widow  deceased,  (to  whose  last  will  and  testament  reference 
is  made).  My  nephew  Edward  Seabright.  Reference  to  will  of  M  my  good 
father" — "  whose  executor  I  am."  My  late  brother  in  law  Thomas  Astia. 
My  late  brother  Thomas  Seabright,  gen1,  deceased,  made  me  his  only 
executor.  Have  brought  up  all  his  five  children.  My  cousin  Edward 
Broad  Esq.  who  married  with  my  niece  Judith.  Elizabeth  Blounte  the 
late  widow  and  administratrix  of  my  nephew  William  Seabright  deceased. 
My  best  and  loving  cousin  Sir  Thomas  Coveutrye,  knight,  H.  M.  Solli- 
citor  General  who  married  with  my  niece  Sara,  sithence  deceased.  My 
cousin  Johu  Burnell  who  married  Anne  my  said  brother's  youngest  daugh- 
ter. Reference  to  "  my  good  father  Edward  Seabright."  The  two  children 
of  my  niece  Sarah  Coventrye,  Thomas  and  Elizabeth.  My  loving  siiter  in 
law  Anne  late  the  widow  of  my  said  brother  and  now  the  wife  of  Thomas 
Walsh,  gentleman.  The  parish  of  Woolverley  in.  the  Co.  of  Worcester  the 
place  of  my  birth,  where  I  was  bred  up  a  great  part  of  my  youth.  I  give 
and  bequeath  to  my  brother  Thomas  Morley  a  gown.  To  my  sister  his 
wife  and  to  one  of  his  daughters,  being  my  god  daughter,  two  gowns  of 
silk  "grogaron."  To  my  brother  Isaac  Morley  a  cloak.  Others.  My 
cousin  xMrs.  Burnell,  widow.  My  cousin  John  Huntbach  and  my  niece  his 
wife.  My  brother  Walshe  and  my  sister  his  wife.  My  cousin  Page  aud 
his  wife.  My  cousin  Brigges  aud  my  cousin  his  wife.  My  cousin  Simon 
Jenckes  and  his  wife.  My  servant  Edmund  Nuttinge.  My  late  servant 
Thomas  Hale.     My  loving  cousin  Edward  Broad  Esq.  and  my  loving  niece 


1S94.]  Genealogical  Gleanings  in  England.  117 

his  wife  and  their  three  children.  My  niece  Anne  Burnell  and  her  chil- 
dren. My  niece  Theodicia  Seabright.  My  nephew  Edward  Seabright's 
children  and  hers.  My  nephew  William  Astiu's  children  (as  I  take  it  four 
in  number).  My  loving  and  kind  cousin  Mrs  Susan  Colles  widow.  My 
loving  sister  in  law  Alice  Boucher.  Soame,  97. 

[The  testator  of  the  above  was  Town  Clerk  of  London  and  married  Eliza- 
beth, sister  of  Thomas  Morler  of  London  and  aunt  of  John  Motley  of  Charles- 
town,  Mass.  The  pedigree  of  the  familv  of  Seabright  or  Sebright  is  given  in 
the  Visitation  of  Worcestershire  (printed  by  the  Ilarleian  Society)  and  also  in 
the  Visitation  of  Essex  for  1012  (Harleian  So..).  See  also  Register  for  April, 
1892,  iu  the  pedigrees  of  Burned  and  Morley,  there  published. 

Hexry  F.  Waters. 

By  deed  dated  April  2,  1624,  "Edward  Sebright  of  Prestwood,  in  ye  Conn- 
tie  of  Start'ord  Esqr  v-  Cozen  &  next  heire  of  William  Sebright  Late  of  yc  Cittie  of 
London  Esq''  deceased  &  Theodosea  v*  wife  of  y  s'1  Edward"  convey  to 
"Henrv  Cullicke  of  v°  IlamLett  of  Milton  in  y«  Townshipp  Parish  or  ffeilds  of 
Prittlewell  in  ve  Hundred  of  Kotchf ord,  in  yc  Countie  of  Essex  yeoman  ",  lauds 
in  the  parishes  of  Vorthshoberie,  Much  Wakering  alias  Wakering  Magna  and 
other  parishes  in  the  Hundred  of  Rotchford,  Co.  Essex,  England;  also  lands  in 
Stray  field  (late  Carters  alias  Friends):  land  called  BangoldLand;  the  moiety 
of  Yokefieete  and  Carters  Lanes. 

This  deed  was  recorded  in  Boston  iliu  ye  Booke  of  Records  for  deeds  [IV. 
325]  for  v"  Countie  of  Snffolke  in  New  England"  at  the  request  of  "  Richard 
Ely,  &  Elizabeth  his  wife,  ye  wife  of  &  executrix  vnto  ye  Late  John  Cullicke  of 
Boston  ni'ehaat."  John  T.  Hassam.j 

Henry  Wilkinson  of  Nottingham  town,  skinner,  25  November  1642, 
proved  27  March  1(546.  To  be"  buried  in  St.  Peter's  church  within  the 
town  of  Nottingham.  To  Mr.  Robert  Buckland,  citizen  and  leatherseller 
of  London,  fifty  shillings  to  make  him  a  gold  ring  to  wear  for  my  sake. 
To  Mrs.  Anne  "Ball  of  London  fifty  shillings,  to  Mr.  John  Ball  of  London 
forty  shillings  and  to  Mr.  Richard  Ball  of  London  forty  shillings  (for 
rings  «fec).  To  my  cousin  Alice  Barense  of  Gedliuge  three  _  pounds.  To 
my  cousin   Dorothy  Johnson  of    Ratclifte   three  pounds.     To    my  cousin 

Joane  Skelinton  of  Roudiugton  three  pounds.    To  my  cousin Asher 

of  Roudiugton  three  pounds.  To  my  cousin  Anne  Wilkinson  at  the  Black 
Wall  three  pounds.  To  my  cousin' Isabel  Blood  in  New  England  three 
pounds.  To  my  cousin  Margaret  Atkinson  of  Nottingham  four  pounds.^  To 
my  brother  John  Wilkinson  forty  shillings.  To  my  cousin  Robert  Wilkinson 
three  pounds.  To  my  cousin  Richard  Wilkinson  three  pounds.  '  To  my 
cousin  Jeffery  Wilkinson  three  pounds.  To  my  cousin  John  Wilkinson, 
my  brother  John's  son,  three  pounds.  To  my  cousin  Mary  Wilkinson  four 
pounds.  To  my  brother  George  Attenborowe  twenty  shillings  and  to  my 
sister  Mary  his  wife  five  pounds.  Also  to  William,  Jarvis,  George  and 
Richard  Attenborowe.  mv  sister's  sons,  to  every  one  of  them  three  pounds. 
To  Anne  Kirke  and  Elizabeth  (Jripel,  my  sister's  daughters,  three  pounds 
each.  To  Richard  Barnes  of  Gedlinge,  my  sister's  son,  three  pounds.  To 
my  sister  Jane  Hardnett  five  pounds  and  my  gimball  gold  ring  and  one  pair 
spoon  silver  and  double  gilt.  To  my  cousiu  Anne  Beke  one  hoop  ring  of 
gold.  My  cousins  Richard  and  Jeffery  Wilkinson  and  their  brother  John. 
William  and  Henry  Wilkinson  and  their  other  brother  at  London.  Henry 
the  son  of  Robert  Wilkinson,  my  sodson.  My  brother  Hardnett  and  Mary 
his  wife.  My  cousin  Gelstrape  Carpenter  at  Wilford.  John  Wilkinson,  my 
cousin,  citizen  and  blacksmith  of  London  and  my  cousin  George  Wilkinson 
of  Roudiugton,  his   brother.     My  loving   friend   Mr.  Richard    Hardnett 

YOL.    XLVIII.  11 


118  Genealogical  Gleanings  in  England.  [Jan. 

citizen  and  skinner  of  London.  My  brother  in  law  Richard  Hardnett, 
skinner,  to  be  executor. 

Admon.  granted  (as  above)  to  Richard  Hardnett  the  executor  of  Richard 
Hardnett  &c.  to  administer  the  goods  &c.  Twisse,  37. 

f Isabel  Blood  was  the  wife  of  Richard  Blood  of  Groton,  Mass.— Editok.] 

Judith  Morris  of  Dedham,  Essex,  widow,  25  January  1G45,  proved 
17  March  1645.  To  certain  preachers  of  the  Word,  viz'  Mr  Newcotne  and 
Mr.  Smith  of  Dedham.  Mr.  Stanton  of  Ipswich,  Mr.  Edes  of  Laffbrd  (Law- 
ford?)  Mr.  Cair  of  Ardleigb,  Mr.  Seaborne  of  Langham,  Mr.  Cooke  who 
was  sometimes  preacher  at  Basted  and  Mr.  Astey,  forty  shillings  apiece. 
To  Richard  Jacomond's  son,  late  of  East  Marsye,  forty  shillings.  To 
Richard  Jacomond  forty  shillings  and  to  his  daughter  that  is  blind  four 
pounds.  To  Martha  and  Elizabeth  Jacomond.  daughters  of  Richard 
Jacomond,  all  my  wearing  apparel.  To  Judith  Coffeild  my  god  daughter 
twenty  shillings  and  a  floekbed.  To  the  iiijor  children  of  Stephen  Hart, 
that  is  to  say,  John,  Steven,  Sarah  and  the  youngest  that  went  with  her 
father  to  New  England,  five  pounds  apiece.  Anne  Willes,  my  god  daugh- 
ter, and  her  brothers.  To  John  Collens  son  of  the  widow  Collins  of 
Higham  forty  shillings,  to  be  paid  to  his  mother.  My  goddaughter  Mary 
Warren  and  her  brothers  and  sisters.  John  Morris.  My  brother  Josuah 
Warren.  William  Morris  at  four  and  twenty.  Thomas  Morris,  servant 
with  Goodman  Groome  of  Colchester.  Sarah  Groome  my  god  daughter. 
Her  father  William  Groome.  Mary  Groome.  The  four  children  of  Josua 
Warren,  viz*  Josua.  Sarah,  Elizabeth  and  Hester.  Mr.  Strangmanes  three 
children.  The  widow  Woodward  dwelling  in  St.  James  Parish  in  Col- 
chester. Goodman  Chapline  of  the  same  parish.  Goodman  Munson  of 
Colchester.  Thomas  Roofe  of  Colchester,  carrier,  and  his  children.  To 
the  town  of  Copford  five  pounds  towards  the  binding  forth  of  two  poor  chil- 
dren apprentices.  Certain  poor  widows  in  Copford.  The  eldest  son  of 
Parnell  Cutler,  sometimes  my  servant.  Mary  Harrison  that  dwelleth  with 
Mr.  Barrowes.  To  Rebecca  Scolding,  my  god  daughter  now  in  New  Eng- 
land, twenty  shillings.  The  widow  Pease  of  Colchester.  To  Simon  Stone 
in  New  England  forty  shillings.  The  wife  of  Nathaniel  Baker  of  Strat- 
ford. William  Groome,  my  girl's  father.  Goodman  Wood  of  Dedham, 
shoemaker,  and  his  children.  The  poor  of  Stratford.  The  widow  Frende 
and  the  widow  Beckwaye.  Mr.  Nicholas  Prigg.  I  give  unto  Joseph 
Morse  in  New  England  twenty  shiliiugs  if  he  be  living;  if  he  be  dead  then 
my  will  is  that  William  Stone  in  New  England  shall  have  the  twenty  shil- 
lings. Thomas  Jacomond  now  servant  to  Mr.  Barn  ton  of  Colchester.  To 
John  Bentley  my  bible.  Robert  Makeu  of  Dedham.  Sarah  Warren,  the 
wife  of  Thomas  Beale,  and  her  two  children.  Hester  the  wife  of  Mr. 
Strangeman  above  mentioned.  I  nominate  and  appoint  Clement  Fenne  of 
Dedham,  clothier,  and  John  Morris  of  Colchester,  merchant,  to  be  my 
executors  and  Christopher  Vyue  of  Langham  supervisor. 

All  that  my  sixteenth  part  which  I  have  in  a  ship  wherein  John  Hay- 
ward  goes  master  and  all  that  I  lent  to  the  Parliament,  with  the  proiits,  if 
any  be,  and  all  my  other  goods  and  chattels  &c.  not  before  bequeathed  and 
given,  except  twenty  shillings  not  before  mentioned,  which  twenty  shillings 
I  now  give  to  a  kinswoman  in  Colchester,  but  all  the  rest  of  my  estate  un- 
bequeathed  I  do  give  and  bequeath  unto  my  cousin  Stephen  Harte's  chil- 
dren in  New  England,  to  be  equally  divided  between  them,  my  funeral  be- 
ing discharged  and  all  other  necessaries  aud  expences  being  allowed  to  my 


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executors.  And  my  executors  shall  have  power  to  make  sale  of  that  six- 
teenth part  in  the  ship  abovesaid  and  send  the  money  to  New  England  to 
those  children  to  whom  it  is  given. 

Witnessed  by  Isaac  Ham  and  Samuel  Deacon.  Probate  was  granted  to 
John  Morris,  Clement  Fenne,  the  other  executor,  being  dead. 

Twisse,  33. 

[The  above  will,  it  will  be  noticed,  contains  a  number  of  New  England  names. 

II.  F.  W. 

Stephen  Hart,  named  in  this  will,  came  to  Now  England  (it  is  said  in  1632,) 
and  settled  at  Cambridge  (then  Newtown).  He  removed  soon  afterwards  to 
Hartford  and  thence  to  Farmington.  A  volume  was  published  in  1875  entitled 
"  Geuealogical  History  of  Deacon  Stephen  Hart  and  his  Descendants  by  Alfred 
Andrews."  Published  by  Austin  Hart.  The  compiler  states  that  Stephen  Hart  was 
bora  about  1603  at  Braiutree  in  Essex  count}',  England.  See  also  Paige's  History 
of  Cambridge,  page  574;  Memorial  History  of  Hartford  County,  Conu.,  vol.  i., 
p.  242;  and" Savage's  Genealogical  Dictionary,  vol.  2,  p.  3G7-S. 

Simon  Stone,  also  named,  settled  at  Watertown,  Mass.  See  Bond's  History 
of  Watertown,  pp.  5S4  to  501,  for  an  account  of  him  and  his  descendants. 
William  Stone  was,  I  presume,  the  person  who  settled  at  Guilford  in  Connecti- 
cut in  1639.  See  Smith's  History  of  Guilford  and  Savage's  Genealogical  Dic- 
tionary. —  Editor.] 

Francis  Doughtie  of  Hampsteed  in  the  parish  of  Oldsbury  and  County 
and  Diocese  of  Gloucester,  gen1,  16  May  1634,  proved  31  October  1634. 
To  my  sou  Francis  my  white  horse  or  nag.  To  Spencer  Achley,  ray 
daughter  Frances'  son,  twenty  shillings,  to  be  paid  by  my  executrix  within 
six  mouths  eext  after  my  decease.  To  John  Dauyes,  the  son  of  ir.v  daugh- 
ter Margaret,  ten  shillings,  to  be  paid  in  like  manner.  To  the  three  chil- 
dren of  my  son  Francis,  that  is  to  say,  Mary,  his  daughter,  and  Francis 
and  Eliah,  his  sons,  thirty  shillings,  to  be  paid  in  like  manner.  The  rest 
of  my  goods,  moveable  and  unmoveable  whatsoever,  I  give  and  bequeath 
to  my  daughter  Elizabeth  (excepting  what  I  have  passed  by  my  deed  bear- 
ing date  15  May  1634,  made  to  certain  uses  to  rlurnfrey  Hooke,  alderman 
of  the  City  of  Bristol,  Thomas  Lloyd  of  the  same,  Adam  Baynham  of  Yate 
gen*  and  William  Maye  of  Chert  field  gen',  this  excepted)  and  I  make  my 
daughter  Elizabeth  my  whole  and  sole  executrix  &c. 

One  of  the  witnesses  was  Fr:  Doughtie  ministr.  Seager,  86. 

[The  above  will  and  the  deed  to  Humfrey  Hooke  and  others,  to  which  it  re- 
fers, gave  rise  to  a  great  contention  in  New  England,  as  appears  from  Lech- 
ford's  Note-Book,  pp.  133-5,  137,  171-3  and  250  (I  refer  to  the  pages  of  the 
printed  book).  Elizabeth  Doughtie,  the  daughter  and  sole  executrix  of  the 
above  testator,  became  the  wife  of  William  Cole  of  Sutton  in  the  parish  of 
Chew  Magna,  in  the  County  of  Somerset,  gentleman  (as  he  calls  himself  iu  a 
bill  of  complaint  to  the  Gov.,  Council  and  Assistants  of  the  Jurisdiction  of 
Massachusetts  Bay)  and  brother  of  John  Cole  of  Farrington.  Somerset,  yeoman, 
who  made  a  deposition  about  Hamsteed  Farm  in  KJ39.  William  and  Elizabeth 
Cole  were  then  in  New  England,  as  was  also  her  brother  Francis  Doughty,  who 
at  that  time  called  himself  a  planter  of  Dorchester  in  New  England.  He  was 
called  a  clerk  in  the  bill  of  complaint  by  William  Cole  and  his  wife,  and  seems 
to  have  been  a  minister  at  Taunton  (Mass.),  and  afterwards  to  have  removed 
to  Long  Island.  Henry  F.  Waters.] 

Timothy  Sl  Nicholas  of  the  parish  of  St.  Marys  in  the  Isle  of  Ely 
within  the  Co.  of  Cambridge  gen',  13  June  1606,  proved  17  September 
1606.  Testator  calls  him>elf  the  youngest  son  of  Vincent  St.  Nicholas, 
late  of  Ashe  next  Sandwich  in  the  Co.  of  Kent,  gen'  deceased,  and  declares 


120  -     Genealogical  Gleanings  in  England.  [Jan. 

his  age  to  be  about  thirty  years,  wishes  his  body  to  be  buried  within  the 
parish  church  of  Ahe  near  the  grave  of  his  father,  (if  it  should  please  God 
to  call  him  out  of  this  transitory  world  at  or  near  Ashe)  and  orders  a  monu- 
ment to  be  laid  upon  the  resting  place  of  his  body  not  exceeding  the  value 
of  thirteen  pounds  six  shillings  eight  pence.  To  the  poor  of  Ospringe  in 
Kent  and  of  St.  Marys.  To  every  godchild.  '•  I  promised  for  them  they 
shoulde  coustantlie  professe  renouncinge  all  poperye  and  Romishe  Kelictes 
and  supstition."  Loving  brother  Henry  Harfleete  and  Thomas,  his  sou. 
Brother  Thomas  St.  Nicholas.  Niece  and, god  daughter  Dorothy  Brett  (at 
her  age  of  sixteen  years).  Sister  Brett's  other  daughter  Deborah  Brett. 
Niece  and  god  daughter  Deborah  St.  Nicholas,  eldest  daughter  of  brother 
Thomas.  Niece  Dorothy  St.  Nicholas  (another  daughter).  Brother  Steb- 
binge.  Nephew  Henry  Harfleete.  My  nieces  Mary.  Omer  (sic),  Susan 
and  Martha  Harfleete.  Godson  John  Harfleete  son  of  William  Harflete  of 
Sandwich  gen'.  Cousin  Parries  children.  James.  Ellen,  Francis  and  Judith, 
and  his  wife  (my  niece  and  faithful  cousin).  Linen  &c.  in  their  house  at 
St.  Mary  Magdalens  in  Barmondsey  near  London.  My  cousin  Christopher 
Lasheforde.  Cousin  Francis  Maunocke  and  her  children.  Mary  Lashe- 
ford  daughter  of  my  uncle  Lasheford  (if  she  survive  her  husband)  and  her 
children.  ''And  I  doe  geve  unto  ray  reverend  and  deere  frendes  the  zeal- 
ous preachers  of  Gods  Worde  and  his  faithefull  mynisters  (vizc)  to  Mr. 
Thomas  Willson  my  reverend  teacher  &  instructer  sixe  Angells  to  my 
deere  frend  Mr.  Anthony  ffeilde  of  Chillenden  sixe  Angells  To  Mr. 
Willm  Syms  my  faithefull  frend  fower  Angells  To  my  deere  and  lovinge 
brother  Stebbinge  and  my  moste  approoved  faithefull  frend  sixe  Angells 
To  Mr  Beniarnyn  Solley  my  oulde  schoole  fellowe  and  Christian  frend 
Thirtie  shillings  To  Mr  Jacob  Twentye  shillinges.  To  Mr  Suape  Twentye 
shillinges  To  Mr  Dampard  T  wen  tie  sbil  Hnges  To  Mr  Stoughton  Twentie 
shillinges  To  Mr  Egerton  Twentie  shillinges  To  Mr  Brownesmithe 
Twentye  shillings  moste  humblie  thanckinge  them  for  their  faithefull  en- 
devor  and  for  their  earnest  labour  and  paines  for  the  instructyou  of  my 
conscience  and  the  consciences  of  many  men  in  the  knowledge  of  Gods 
truthe  and  relligion.  And  their  legacies  I  bestowe  uppou  them  as  a  testi- 
monie  of  my  love  and  thanckfullnes  towerdes  them."  Sundry  servants  &c. 
To  Mr  James  Pallmer  the  son  of  Sir  Thomas  Pallmer,  knight,  my  vyoil 
which  I  have  often  promised  him.  My  loving  friend  Mr.  Thomas  Geili- 
brand  of  Sandwich.  Cousin  Rowland  Engeham  and  cousin  William  Enge- 
ham. 

u  And  whereas  I  haue  in  truste  heretofore  receaved  of  my  aforesaid  deere 
frend  Mr  Willm  Syms  ffiftye  powudes  of  lawfull  money  of  Englande  to  the 
intente  that  I  shoulde  prchase  therewith  to  the  onely  use  of  his  two  sonnes 
(viz')  Zacharye  and  Willm  Syms  and  of  their  heires  landes  or  heredyta- 
mentes  of  the  yearelie  valewe  at  the  tyme  of  the  purchase  thereof  of  Three 
pouudes  of  lyke  money  and  that  untill  suche  purchase  should  be  so  made 
there  shoolde  be  by  me  pavd  towerdes  the  education  or  mavntenfice  of  the 
said  Zacharie  and  Willm  Syms  the  sonnes  Three  poundes  of  laweful!  money 
of  Englande  yearelie  at  the  ffeastes  of  the  natyuitie  of  Ste  John  Baptiste 
and  of  the  uativitye  of  oure  Lord  Christe  by  even  porcous:  nowe  therefore 
to  thintent  that  I  maie  faithefullie  pforme  the  said  truste  I  doe  geve"  &c. 
(Then  follows  a  lengthy  provision  lor  raising  three  pounds  a  year  for  them.) 
Nephew  John  St.  Nicholas,  second  son  of  brother  Thomas.  Cousin  Edward 
Upcher  of  Soham  in  Cambridgeshire.  Brother  Thomas  and  said  nephew 
John  St.  Nicholas  to  be  executors.  Stafford,  GO. 


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Margaret  Fulalove  of  London,  widow,  25  September  1629,  proved  14 
October  1G29.  Imprimis  I  do  give  and  bequeath  unto  my  cosen  Zacherie 
Simes,  whom  I  do  make  and  ordain  sole  executor  of  this  my  last  will  and 
testament,  the  sum  of  forty  shillings  and  to  my  cosen  his  wife  my  Phillip 
aud  Cheatiy  gown  and  best  stuff  petticoat,  my  stuff  kertle  and  waistcoat, 
all  my  wearing  linen  and  twenty  shillings  to  make  her  a  ring.  To  my  said 
coseu  Simes'  three  children  I  do  give  and  bequeath  as  followeth ;  unto 
William  Simes  three  shillings  of  lawful  money  of  England,  unto  Sarah 
Simes  also  forty  shilliugs  of  like  money  and  to  Mary  Simes  twenty  shillings 
of  like  money.  I  do  also  give  and  bequeath  untc  the  said  Sara  Simes  (a 
lot  of  bedding  aud  household  stuff,  among  others)  two  sallet  dishes,  one 
maudlin  cup,  a  brass  scummer  and  a  brass  warming  pan.  If  any  surplusage 
be  remaining  I  give  to  my  brethren  Thomas  and  John  Hickman,  to  each 
twenty  shillings  and  twenty'  shilliugs  to  each  of  my  own  sisters  and  forty 
shillings  to  be  distributed  amongst  my  said  own  sisters  children.  To  Mar- 
garet Hayes  ten  shillings.  To  my  cousin  Grantham  twenty  shillings  and 
to  his  wife  twenty  shillings.  To  Hulda  Crooke  twenty  shilliugs.  To  Sara 
Grantham  twenty  shillings.  To  Caleb  Grantham  twenty  shillings.  To  my 
cousin  Attaloone  an  angel  and  to  his  wife  forty  shillings  and  a  Kersey 
cubbord  cloth.  Forty  shillings  to  her  daughter.  To  my  cousin  Godkin's 
wife  twenty  shillings  and  twenty  shillings  to  Mr.  "William  Simes.  A  silver 
spoon  for  Mary  Simmes  and  tipt  pot  for  my  cousin  Zachary. 

Wit:   William  Symmes,  Mary  S\rnrnes,  her  mark,  Finer  Godkin. 

Archd.  of  London,  B.  7  L.  G2. 

Against  this  is  entered,  on  margin,  Parish  of  St.  Michael  Bessingshawe. 

Married  at  St.  Saviours  Southwark,  13  August  1622,  Zachery  Simmes 
and  Sara  Baker. 

[Zacharie  Simes,  named  by  the  testator  as  a  cousiu  or  nephew,  and  as  execu- 
tor of  her  will,  was  evidently  the  Rev.  Zechariah  Syms  or  Symmes,  who  was 
the  minister  of  Charlestown,  Mass.,  from  Dec.  22,  1624  till  his  death  Feb.  4, 
1670-1.  He  was  the  son  of  Rev.  William  Symmes,  whose  father,  William 
Symmes,  was  a  firm  protestant  in  the  reign  of  Queen  Mary. 

Rev.  Zechariah  Symmes  was  bom  in  Canterbury,  Kent,  April  5,  1599,  was 
educated  at  Emmanuel  College,  Crmbridge  University,  and  received  his  A.B.  in 
1620.  In  1621  he  was  chosen  lecturer  at  "St.  Antholin's  in  London.  About  1625 
he  removed  to  Dunstable,  Beds.,  where  he  was  rector  for  eight  years.  He  came 
to  New  England  in  the  Griffin,  which  arrived  Sept.  18,  1634.  He  had  a  brother 
William  who  was  living,  probably  in  England,  in  1664,  as  he  names  him  in  his 
will  of  that  date. 

The  William  Syms  who  had  sons  Zacharye  and  William,  according  to  the 
preceding  will  of  "Timothy  St.  Nicholas,  1606*:  as  well  as  the  Mr.  William  Simes 
named  by  the  above  Margaret  Fulalove,  was,  I  presume,  the  father  of  our  New 
England  minister.  See  The  Symmes  Memorial,  by  Rev.  John  A.  Vinton,  Bos- 
ton, 1873. — Editor.] 

Thomasine  Owfield  (vol.  47,  page  498)  : 

[In  the  note  to  the  will  of  Thomasine  Owfleld  at  the  above  reference,  Mr.  Waters 
says:  "This  will  binds  all  the  foregoinrj  wills  to  that  of  Thomasine  J:  ansen 
already  given."  As  the  wills  are  arranged  in  the  Register,  this  is  an  error. 
Mr.  Waters  arranged  the  wills  in  the  April,  July  and  October  numbers  of  the 
Register  in  groups,  but  in  printing  them  they  got  disarranged,  so  that  an  ex- 
planation is  necessary.  The  will  of  Thomasine  Owrield  and~those  following  it 
on  pages  49S  to  505  were  placed  by  Mr.  Waters  between  those  of  Roger  Owfleld 
and  Abell  Makepeace  on  paije  289.  The  wills  referred  to  in  the  note  above 
quoted  as  bound  to  the  will  of  Thomasine  J;  ansen  are  those  of  Richard  Walter 
(p.  285),  John  Moore  (p.  286),  Elizabeth  Walter  (p.  2Sii),  Margaret  Gardiner 
(p.  268),  John  Gardyner  (p.  283)  and  Roger  Owfleld  (p.  289). 


. 


122  „     Genealogical  Gleanings  in  England.  [Jan. 

There  is  also  an  omission  in  the  editorial  note,  vol.  47,  pns;e  400.  The  Rosrer 
Williams  and  Pembertou  matter  in  the  Register,  vol.  43^  pages  200  to  301, 
should  have  hem  referred  to.  The  will  of  Roger  Pembertou,  the  father  of 
Robert,  the  testator,  will  there  be  found,  and  much  other  genealogical  matter 
relating  to  the  Pembertons.  We  find  there  the  baptism  at  St.  Albans  of  Robert 
Pembertou,  Dec.  2Sj  1086*  and  his  burial  there  May  20.  1G2S:  also  the  baptisms 
of  his  sisters  Elizabeth  and  Teela.  the  Latter  of  whom  is  mentioned  in  his 
father's  will  and  his  own  as  the  wife  of  Mr,  Robert  Wooley.  lie  is  omitted  in 
the  pedigree  copied  from  the  Visitation  of  Hertfordshire,  1634,  on  page  205  of 
vol.  43,  but  is  named  in  the  will  of  his  father. — Editor.] 

Ludlow  (a>/te.\o\.  42,  pp.  1S1-IS4)  : 

[On  page  183  of  Vol.  42  of  the  Register,  in  the  English  Ludlow  genealogy 
published  by  you,  with  special  reference  to  Roger  Ludlow  of  Massachusetts  and 
Connecticut,  t  rind  the  following  foot-note  appended  to  the  name  of  Gabriel 
[Ludlow]8,  of  Froine,  bapt.  at  Warminster,  27  Aug.  1634: — 

'■He  is  said  to  have  been  the  ancestor  of  the  New  York  Lucllows. — G.  D. 
Scull." 

I  do  not  know  whether  the  exact  connection  of  the  New  York  Ludlows  with 
the  English  genealogy  can  be  a  matter  of  interest  to  any  of  your  readers.  If 
so,  here  it  is  : — 

The  New  York  Ludlows,  together  with  the  Philadelphia  branch  of  the  family, 
to  which  belonged  the  Rev.  John  Ludlow,  D.D.,  Provost  of  the  University  of 
Pennsylvania  from  1834  to  ls."i2,  and  his  sons  John  Livingston  Ludlow,  M.D., 
and  Judge  James  Ryley  Ludlow,  are  descended  from  Gabriel  Ludlow,  who 
landed  in  New  York,  in  his  32d  year,  on  Nov.  24,  1694,  and  on  April  5,  1*307.  was 
married  in  New  York  to  Sarah,  a  daughter  of  the  Rev.  Joseph  Hanmer,  D.D. 

In  a  memorandum-book  belonging  to  Gabriel  Ludlow,  the  entries  in  which  are 
in  his  handwriting,  which  book  is  in  the  possession  of  Alfred  Ludlow  Carroll, 
M.D.,  of  New  York,  appears  the  following  note: — 

"  Gabriel  Ludlow,  son  of  Gabriel  Ludlow,  was  born  Nov.  the  2d,  1603,  which 
was  on  Monday  night  at  12  o'clock,  at  Castle  Cary." 

The  next  note  in  the  memorandum-book  chronicles  the  birth  of  a  brother,  M. 
Ludlow,  at  '•ftroom"  [Frome],  on  Dec.  2,  1666. 

A  letter  written  early  in  1883  to  the  Vicar  of  Castle  Cary,  enquiring  wdiether 
any  record  survived  of  the  baptism  in  his  parish  of  Gabriel  Ludlow,  son  of 
Gabriel,  in  1663,  brought  the  satisfactory  response  that  the  record  does  survive, 
and  the  following  certified  copy  of  it: 

"Copy  of  the  baptismal  certificate  of  Gabriel  Ludlow. 
'  Christenings  in  the  year  1663. 
December. 

The  first  day  of  this  moneth  Gabriell  the  sonne  of  Gabriel!  Ludlow  of  froome 
and  of  Martha  his  wife  was  Christened.' 

I  hereby  certify  that  the  above  is  a  true  copy  of  an  entry  in  the  Register  of 
Baptisms  for  the  Parish  of  Castle  Cary  in  the  County  of  Somerset. 
Revenue  As  witness  my  hand  this  10th  day  of  March,  1883. 

Stamp,  Id.  A.  W.  Grafton,  Vicar." 

Thomas  W.  Ludlow,  Cottage  Lawn,  Tankers,  V.  T. 

—Editor]. 

Francis  Scrogges  of  Patrnar  hall  in  the  parish  of  Aldebury,  Herte, 
gentleman,  3  Juue  1585.  proved  4  November  1585.  To  my  wife  Diouise 
(certain  grain  &c)  and  my  whole  team  of  horses  being  in  number  five,  mostly 
in  the  keeping  of  John  Anthony  my  servant  and  esteemed  at  the  value  of 
sixteen  pounds  (and  other  property).  To  my  sou  Henry  one  hundred  pounds, 
to  my  son  Thomas  twenty  pounds,  to  my  son  William  forty  pounds,  all 
within  two  years  next  after  my  desease.  To  my  son  Francis  one  hundred 
pounds,  to  be  paid  him  at  his  full  age  of  two  and  twenty  years.  To  my 
daughter  Susan  twenty  pounds  within  one  quarter  of  a  year  next  after  my 
decease.  To  my  daughters  Grace  and  Lettece  Scrogges  one  hundred  pounds 
apiece  at  one  and  twenty  or  days  of  marriage.     I  give  to  my  son  John 


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Scrogges  all  that  my  manor  called  Patmar  hall  and  all  my  other  lands  &c 
to  hold  for  three  years  after  my  decease  upon  condition  that  he  shall  stand 
bound  unco  Thomas  Meade  of  Bardene,  Essex,  yeoman,  and  unto  William 
Deane  my  son  in  law  in  the  sum  of  live  hundred  pounds  to  pay  the  legacies 

I  have  given  to  his  bi  others  and  sisters,  and  then  he  shall  hold  the 
manor  and  lands  absolutely  and  without  condition.  Provision  made  if  he 
refuses  &c.  Henry  the  second  son,  Thomas  the  third  son.  then  William, 
then  Francis  the  fifth  son,  then  the  daughters,  Alice,  Elizabeth,  Susan, 
Jane,  Grace  and  Lettece.  To  my  sister  Katherine  Surrye  forty  shillings 
and  to  Raff  Surrye  her  son  four  pounds.  Dionise  my  wife  shall  have  her 
abode  and  dwelling  in  the  three  chambers  next  the  kitchen  in  the  said 
manor  house,  that  is  to  say,  over  the  larder  there.  Certain  tenements  <Scc 
at  Watton  at  Stoue,  Great  Munden  and  Little  Muudeu  made  over  to  the 
use  of  said  wife,  she  to  release  to  ray  son  John  all  her  right  of  dower  in 
my  manor,  &c.     Son  John  to  be  executor.  Brudenell,  48. 

Thomas  Scrooges  of  Trymley  S*  Mary,  Suffolk,  28  May  1589,  proved 

II  June  1539.  To  be  buried  in  the  church  of  Trimley  St.  Mary.  My 
servants  Jaue  Lambe,  Elizabeth  Fowles,  Ann  Battle  and  William  Batle. 
Barnaby  Gowldinge.  Thomas  Lambe  gen1.  Lawrence  Hudson  of  Trim- 
ley  Sl  Mary.  Thomas  Sugar  my  godchild-  I  am  to  pay  to  the  widow 
Shemynge's  sister  in  Hertfordshire  and  to  Philip  Newman  and  to  one  of 
Thomas  Newman's  children  (for  parcel  of  the  purchase  of  Melton  mill)  &c. 
Bennett  Newman  my  tenant.  I  give  my  lands,  tenements  &c.  in  Shotley 
to  my  brothers  William  and  Henry  and  my  sisters  Elizabeth  Anton  and 
Susan  Paye  and  their  heirs  forever.  My  brothers  William  and  Henry 
Scrogges  to  be  executors  and  William  Smith  ah  Randes  of  Walton  and 
John  Talbott  overseers.  If  the  said  Bennett  Newman  shall  think  good  to 
take  my  mill  and  lands  in  Melton  I  give  him  towards  the  purchase  the  seven 
pounds  ten  shillings  which  he  shall  owe  me  at  Michaelmas  next. 

Leicester,  59. 

John  Scrogges  of  Patmer  Hall  in  the  parish  of  Alberry  in  the  Co.  of 
Hartford  gen',  13  August  1592,  proved  14  May  1593.  To  be  buried  in 
the  parish  church  of  Albery.  To  Mary  Scrogges  my  loving  wife  all  my 
goods,  debts,  ready  money  and  all  such  plate  as  she  brought  with  her  &c. 
To  my  cousin  Edward  Newporte  one  ounce  of  gold  for  a  remembrance. 
To  my  three  brothers,  Henry,  William  and  Francis  Scrogges,  to  each  of 
them  one  ounce  of  gold  for  a  remembrance.  To  my  three  sisters,  Alice 
Leake,  Elizabeth  Anton  and  Susan  Paye,  forty  shillings  apiece  for  a  re- 
membrance. To  my  three  sisters,  Jane  Deane,  Grace  Crabbe  and  Lettice 
Scrogges,  to  each  of  them  half  an  ounce  of  gold,  to  be  paid  and  delivered 
by  my  executor,  also  for  a  remembrance.  To  my  mother  in  law  Dyonice 
Burton  ten  pounds,  to  buy  her  a  mourning  gown  and  a  ring  for  a  remem- 
brance. To  my  brother  in  law  Mr.  Randolfe  Symmes  one  ounce  of  gold 
for  a  remembrance  and  unto  my  sister  in  law  Anue  Symmes,  the  wife  of 
the  said  Randolfe,  forty  shillings  likewise  for  a  remembrance.  My  ser- 
vants. The  parish  of  Albury.  To  my  loving  cousin  Edward  Turnor  Esq. 
an  ounce  of  gold  for  a  remembrance.  To  my  niece  Dorothy  Symmes,  the 
daughter  of  my  brother  Sy  fries,  one  ounce  of  gold.  To  my  mother  in  law 
Dennice  Scrogges  forty  shillings  for  a  remembrance. 

Now  concerning  the  custody  and  bringing  up  of  my  son  Edward  Scrogges, 
of  whose  education  and  good  nurture,  both  of  body  and  mind,  I  have 


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124  .Genealogical  Gleanings  in  England.  [Jan. 

especial  care  and  regard,  aud  of  whose  inheritance,  concerning  the  well 
ordering  thereof,  I  have  also  great  respect,  I  commit  unto  my  most  kind 
and  loving  mother  in  luw  Dvonice  Burton,  to  whom  I  have  taken  order 
that  the  wardship  of  my  son  shall  be  assigned  and  made  over,  either  medi- 
ately or  immediately  from  Mr  Sergeant  Spencer  who  hath  the  grant  thereof 
&c.  i£c.  she  to  bring  up  my  said  son  in  good  letters  and  nurture.  My  wife 
to  be  executor  and  ray  cousin  Edward  Turner  overseer.  Philip  Godwynue 
one  of  the  witnesses. 

Proved  by  M1*  Mary  Scrogges.  Nevell,  36. 

Sir  Thomas  Stanley,  knight,  26  February  1605,  proved  13  May  1607. 
To  be  buried  in  the  parish  church  of  Albury,  near  my  pew  door,  in  the 
county  of  Hertford.  The  poor  of  that  parish.  I  do  give  and  bequeath 
all  my  lands  in  Sussex  or  elsewhere,  as  also  my  house  without  Temple  Bar 
near  London,  to  my  brother  Richard  Stanley  and  his  heirs  forever,  paying 
out  of  the  said  lands  and  house  to  ray  wife  one  hundred  marks  yearly  during 
her  life.  To  Dyonis  Sims,  my  wife's  kinswoman,  forty  pounds,  within  forty 
days  after  her  marriage.  To  my  wife's  son  Edward  Scroogs,  a  black  cloak 
and  one  to  his  uncle  1'Ienry  Scroogs.  To  my  cousin  Joane,  wife  of  Richard 
Scarlett  of  Loudon,  a  gown  of  cloth.  To  my  cousin  Jone  Gambell  of 
London  a  gown  of  cloth.  My  servants.  Six  poor  men  that  shall  carry  me 
to  the  church.  My  wife  Mary  to  be  full  executrix.  One  little  table  of 
"currall"  that  standeth  at  Lee  House  in  Sussex,  which  is  my  wife's  mother's, 
Mistress  Burton,  my  will  and  mind  is  that  the  same  table  shall  be  delivered 
to  her  again.  To  my  cousin  Edward  Stanley  in  the  Co.  of  Cumberland  a 
gray  gelding  called  Roger.  Hudlestou,  40. 

Edward  Scrogges  of  Aldbury,  Herts.,  Esq.  2  April  1622,  proved 
9  October  1622.  My  body  to  be  buried  amongst  my  ancestors  in  Aldbury 
church.  I  do  will  and  appoint  that  my  loving  wife  Penelope  (if  it  please 
God  of  his  goodness  and  mercy  to  restore  her  to  her  health  and  perfect 
senses  again  and  that  she  shall  and  do  live  and  continue  unmarried  in  my 
house  called  Patmer  Hall,  of  perfect  sense  and  understanding  fit  and  able 
to  govern,  maintain  and  bring  up  my  children  in  learning  and  virtue)  for 
and  towards  the  maintenance  and  the  bringing  up  of  my  said  children  shall 
have  the  use  and  occupation  of  all  my  movable  goods  &c.  within  my  house 
of  Patmer  Hall  and  so  much  of  my  lands,  tenements  and  rents  (except 
Patmer  Hall  woods  aud  Shaw  woods)  as  are  now  iu  my  hands  aud  pos- 
session by  lease  or  otherwise  till  John  Scrogges,  mine  eldest  son,  shall  ac- 
complish his  full  age  of  one  and  twenty  years  or  be  married.  My  two 
younger  sons  Edward  and  Francis  Scrogges.  To  my  daughters  Penelope 
Scrogges,  Smythie  Scrogges,  Emlyn  Scrogges,  Susan  Scrogges  and  Ana 
Scrogges  two  hundred  pounds  apiece.  Reference  to  jointures  settled  on 
mother,  Dame  Mary  Stanley,  and  wife  Penelope  Scrogges.  Provisions  for 
descent  of  property.  The  residue  to  John  Smythe  E?q.  my  father  in  law 
and  my  loving  mother  his  wife,  Dame  Mary  Stanley,  whom  I  do  make, 
ordain  and  constitute  my  executors  &c.  Savile,  91. 

Anne  Scroggs  of  Earles  Colne,  Essex,  maiden,  28  August  1641.  proved 
18  September  1641.  I  the  daughter  of  Edward  Scroggs  late  of  Aldbury, 
Herts.,  Esq.  To  my  brother  John  Scroggs  Esq.  fifty  pounds,  he  to  pay 
unto  my  brother  William  Harlakenden,  executor,  my  whole  portion  of  six 
hundred  pounds,  together  with  all  the  interest  thereof  due  unto  me   upon 


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accompt  to  the  flay  of  my  death.  My  sister  Goad's  legacy  shall  be  paid  by  my 
executor  and  my  brother  Edward's  legacy  likewise,  viz%  one  hundred  pounds 
to  my  sister  Goad  and  to  my  brother  Edward  Scroggs  filty  pounds.  Small 
bequests  to  Sister  Scroggs,  to  nieces  Margaret  Scroggs  and  Susanna  Goade, 
to  Christopher  Purple  my  nepliew  and  Mary  Purple  my  niece  and  old  Mr. 
Purple  their  grandfather  and  to  his  wife,  to  Richard  Harlakenden  of  Colne 
Prior  Esq.  and  his  wife,  and  to  Jane  Clench  and  to  my  aunt  Hawkesbee, 
widow,  and  her  daughter  Ludgater.  And  to  my  cousin  Sara  Simmes  (who 
is  now  in  Newr  Engfand)  live  pouuds.  To  Mr.  Daniel  Rogers  of  Wethers- 
field  five  pounds.  '  To  Mr.  Till,  preacher  of  the  Word,  twenty  shillings 
and  to  my  brother  Sutton  twenty  shillings.  To  Mr.  Josselin  minister  of 
Earies  Colne  forty  shillings  and  to  my  cousin  Dracott  rive  pounds.  Jacob 
Garret  of  Colne  Wake,  Avery  Saunders  of  Earies  Colne  and  John  Viall 
of  Wethersfield.  To  Samuel  Burton  my  godson  forty  shillings  and  to  Mrs. 
Coseu  of  Earies  Colne  twenty  shillings.  To  my  sister  Smith  the  wife  of 
William  Harlakenden  the  full  sum  of  three  hundred  pounds  and  all  such 
monev  aud  other  good?  us  are  now  in  her  custody  and  keeping.  And  if 
any  of  those  parties  to  whom  any  legacies  are  formerly  given  do  depart  this 
life  before  they  be  due  and  payable  theu  the  said  legacies  shall  remain  aud 
be  due  to  my  sister  Smith  Harlakenden ;  and  I  make  and  ordain  Mr.  Stephen 
Marshall,  preacher  of  God's  word  at  Finchingfieid,  and  my  brother  in  law 
Mr.  William  Harlakenden  of  Earies  Colne,  gentleman,  executors  &c. 

Evelyn,  115. 

[The  cousin  Sara  Simraes,  described  as  "  now  in  New  England,"  -was,  I  sup- 
pose, the  "  Mrs.  Sarah  Symmes"  who  had  a  grant  of  land  in  Cambridge,  1639, 
and  died  there  10  June  1653  (Savage).  She  was  undoubtedly  oue  of  the  daughters 
of  the  Randolph  Symmes  referred  to  in  the  preceding  wills.  Her  relationship 
with  these  parties  must  have  been,  I  think,  through  the  Burtons  and  not 
through  the  Scrogcres  line.  The  match  of  Sir  Thomas" Stanley  with  the  widow 
Scroggs  is  shown  in  the  Stanley  pedigree,  printed  in  the  Visitation  of  Cumber- 
land for  ltJi'5  (Harleian  Society's  Publications.)  A  very  imperfect  pedigree  of 
Scrog.ses  may  be  found  in  the  Visitation  of  Hertfordshire,  also  published  by 
the  Harleian  Society.  It  may  prove  an  interesting  piece  of  geuealogical  work  to 
attempt  to  enlarge  "and  amend  that  pedigree  with  the  help  of  the  notes  I  have 
here  given. 

The  reference  to  "  Randall  Symmes"  and  his  wife  in  the  following  will  would 
seem  to  make  that  worthy  of  preservation  in  connection  with  the  foregoing 
wills.  Hexry  F.  Waters. 

Anne  Scroggs,  the  daughter  of  Edward,  whose  Will  precedes  hers,  had  a 
sister  Smith  or  Smithee  who  married  William  Harlakeuden,  son  of  Thomas 
and  Dorothy  (Cheney)  Harlakenden.  William,  who  was  executor  of  his  si-ter 
in  laws  will,  died  18  March  1674.  His  wife  Smithee  was  buried  28  June  1631, 
as  we  find  by  the  diary  of  Ralph  Josselin,  who  preached  her  funeral  sermon, 
published  in  1652  : 

"26  June  1651.  Mrs  Harlakenden  died;  ye  28,  Mrs  Smitha  Har.  buried,  i 
Justices  wch  had  each  bur'd  a  wife  carried  her  to  ye  grave,  2  Thess.  iv.  13.  18." 

This  Ralph  Josselin  is  of  the  same  family  as  John,  the  author  of  Two  Voy- 
ages to  New  England  and  New  England's  Rarities  (whose  pedigree  is  printed  in 
the  Register,  Vol.  xl..  p.  290,  and  iu  Josselyn's  Voyases,  ed.  "of  1865),  and  of 
Henry  who  was  identified  with  Capt.  John  Mason  in  New  England.  He  is  the 
beneficiary  mentioned  for  the  sum  of  forty  shillings.  In  his  dairy  is  also  to  be 
found  '-Roger  Har.  ob.  in  New  England*  1637,  or  thereabts."  This  refers  to 
Roger  Harlakenden,  who  came  in  the  Defence,  1635.  with  wife  Elizabeth,  who 
at  his  death  married  Herbert  Pelham.  For  will  of  Ro<rer  Harlakenden  see  Re- 
gister, ii.,  p.  181.  In  the  Defence  also  came  Rev.  Thomas  Shepard,  of  Cam- 
bridge, who  had  been  at  Earies  Colne;  as  is  evidenced  by  the  ghost  story  iu 
which  he  is  mentioned,  in  Richard  Baxter's  "  Certainty  of  the  world  of  Spirits 
fully  evinced." 


126  Genealogical  Gleanings  in  England.  [Jan. 

Richard  Havlakenden,  mentioned  in  the  will,  was  brother  of  Roger  of  New 
England;  he  married  for  a  second  wife  Mary,  daughter  of  Sir  Edward  Denny. 

The  sister  of  Roirer  and  Richard.  Mabel,  married  Gov.  John  Haynes  of  Con- 
necticut. As  suggested  by  Mr.  Waters,  we  find  Sarah  Simes  of  Cambridge 
died  10  June,  1653.  Her  will,  dated  i  April,  1653,  mentions  "  brother  John 
Stedman"  and  "brother  William  French "  (born  in  Halsted,  Essex  County, 
Eng.),  but  no  relative  of  the  name  of  Simes.  French  was  one  of  those  who 
came  in  the  Defence,  and  is  put  down  as  servant  to  Harlakenden,  probably 
to  avoid  detection.  The  age  of  Sarah  Simes,  who  was  al&o  of  the  party,  was 
giren  f.s  thirty. 

(See  Topographer  and  Genealogist,  Vol.  i,  pp.  228-258,  edited  by  John  Gough 
Nichols  F.sT  A.,  for  a  full  pedigree  of  Harlakenden  families;  also  Register, 
Vol.  xv-.,  pp.  327-329).  W.  K.  Watkixs.] 

Thomas  FIewett,  citizen  and  clothinaker  of  London,  10  October  1575. 
proved  19  June  1576.  My  body  is  to  be  buried  in  the  parish  church  of  St. 
Clement  where  I  am  a  parishioner.  The  poor  of  the  parish  of  Wales  in 
the  Co.  of  York  where  I  was  born.  To  my  worshipful  and  loving  friends 
and  cousins  Mr.  Edward  Osborne  and  Anne  his  wife,  to  either  of  them  a 
ring  of  gold,  price  three  pounds.  To  my  godson  Hewett  Osborne  live 
pounds.  Mv  cousin  William  Hewett.  clothworker,  and  my  cousin  his  wife. 
My  cousin  Nicholas  FIewett,  clothworker  and  my  cousin  his  wife.  To  my 
cousin  Randall  Syfnes  a  ring  of  gMd,  price  forty  shillings,  and  to  his  wife 
a  ring  of  gold,  price  twenty  shillings.  To  my  cousin  Richard  Syhles  of 
Welforde  a  yard  and  half  of  pewke,  price  twelve  shillings  a  yard.  My 
son  in  law  John  Hawkes.  draper.  Richard  Foster,  clothworker.  My  ap- 
prentices William  Dawkes,  Robert  Bate,  Henry  Parker  and  Thomas  White. 
My  cousin  George  Monnox,  gen',  and  his  wife.  Mr.  Anthony  Bridges  of 
Ham  and  'his  wife  and  Thomas  Bridges  my  godson.  My  cousin  Sturdi- 
vaunt,  swordbearer  of  London.  Mr.  Lewsey,  gent'.  To  my  cousin  Dum- 
mer  a  ring,  price  thirty  shillings.  My  cousin  Sandforde.  Mr.  Megges, 
draper.  My  son  in  law  Richard  Staper  and  his  wife.  My  sons  Henry  and 
William  FIewett.  Henry  Clyderowe.  My  daughter  Bridget  Hewett.  Mr. 
Richard  Raynoide,  draper.  Robert  Dove,  merchant  taylor.  Thomas  FIewett, 
wiredrawer,  Nicholas  Hewett,  scrivener.  The  house  I  now  live  in,  with 
shop,  &c.  I  give  to  my  well  beloved  wife  Elizabeth,  to  have  and  hold  during 
her  natural  life,  remainder  to  Henry  Hewett  my  son  and  heir  apparent. 
To  my  said  wife  Elizabeth  my  manor  or  grange  of  Sherox  in  the  county 
of  Nottingham  or  York  or  elsewhere,  now  in  the  tenure  or  occupation 
of  Johu  Raines  and  others,  to  hold  for  her  life,  remainder  to  my  son  Henry 
&c.  Others  mentioned,  among  whom,  cousin  John  Wyghte's  wife,  Jasper 
Wraye  and  Mrs  Wraye  of  Edmundton  and  Thomas  Wraye  her  son.  John 
Browne  and  his  wife  &c.  My  daughter  Staper's  four  children  now  living. 
Mr.  William  Save  of  Yesnam  and  -my  cousin  Robert  Saye  his  eldest  sou. 
Mr.  Edmund  Burton.  My  very  friend  Mr.  Boswell  of  the  Court  of  Wards. 
To  my  son  William  one  hundred  pounds  over  and  besides  his  portion.  I 
make  and  ordain  my  dear  and  well  beloved  friend  and  cousin  Mr.  Edward 
Osborne,  alderman,  and  Flenry  FIewett  my  son  my  executors,  and  give  to 
the  said  Mr.  Edward  Osborne,  for  his  painstaking,  twenty  pounds.  And  I 
make  and  ordain  my  loving  friends  William  Dummer  and  John  Browne  my 
overseers  to  see  this  my  last  will  and  testament  in  all  points  performed,  as 
my  special  trust  is  in  them.  And  I  give  to  each  of  them  six  pounds  thirteen 
shillings  four  pence.  Carew,  14. 

[The  Edward  Osborne  above  referred  to  was  the  well-known  Lord  Mayor  of 
Loudon,  arid  ancestor  of  the  Duke  of  Leeds,  about  whom  the  romantic  story  is 


1894.]  ^Genealogical  Gleanings  in  England.  127 

told  of  his  leaping  into  the  Thames  from  London  Bridge  to  save  from  drowning 
the  only  daughter  of  Sir  William  Hewett,  then  Lord  Mayor,  to  whom  young 
Osborne  was  at  that  time  apprenticed.  The  damsel  afterwards  became  the  wife 
of  her  preserver  with  the  full  conseut  of  her  father,  who  is  reported  to  have 
refused  her  hand  to  certain  of  the  nobility  and  others,  and  to  have  bestowed  it, 
together  with  a  great  dower,  upon  his  former  apprentice  with  the  declaration 
that  "  Osborne  saved  her  life  and  Osborne  shall  have  her."  Richard  Staper 
who  married  the  daughter  of  Thomas  Hewett,  was  probably  the  father  of  the 
Hewyt  Staper  who  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Roger  Owfeilc'e. 

Henry  F.  Waters.] 

Ann  Brumpstead  of  St.  Martin  in  the  Fields,  Middlesex,  widow,  5  June 
1658,  proved  30  September  1658.  To  be  buried  in  St.  Martin's  near  late 
husband  John  Brumpstead  deceased.  To  my  two  daughters  Mary  Breedon, 
wife  of  John  Breedon,  and  Ruse  Brumpstead  five  pounds  apiece,  to  buy 
them  mourning,  and  all  my  household  goods  in  the  Kings  Head  except  my 
plate  and  the  standards  belonging  to  the  house.  To  my  daughter  Rose  a 
silver  tankard  of  the  value  of  five  pounds  and  six  silver  spoons.  To  my 
daughter  Mary  Breedon  six  silver  spoons.  To  my  son  in  law  Master  John 
Breedon,  her  husband,  five  pounds  to  buy  him  mourning  and  the  sum  of  ten 
pounds  more.  To  my  daughter  in  law  Lucy  Brumpstead  ten  pounds  and 
also  (for  my  grandchild  Thomas  Brumpstead)  six  silver  spoons.  To  my 
cousin  Thomas  Pearson  ten  pounds.  To  my  son  Thomas  Brumpstead  my 
dwelling  house  known  as  the  King's  Head  and  all  the  residue  of  my  goods 
and  chattels  &e.  Wootten,  524. 

Thomas  Breedon,  22  October  1682,  proved  1  April  1689.  Wife  Mary 
to  be  sole  executrix  and  to  have  all  my  outward  estate  &c,  she  to  pay  all 
my  debts  and  to  pay  to  my  son  John  when  he  shall  come  to  the  age  of 
twenty-four  years  two  hundred  pounds  and  the  same  to  sons  Zaccheus  and 
Robert  at  twenty-four,  and  to  my  daughter  Mary  Aylemer  and  her  three 
children  twenty  shillings  apiece  and  to  my  grandson  John  Breedon  twenty 
shillings. 

In  presence  of  Z.  Sedgwicke,  Thomas  Jenings. 

[The  Probate  Act  Book  shows  that  the  testator  wa3  of  Crowton  ia 
Northampton].  Ent,  48. 

Zaciteus  Breedon  of  London,  mariner,  now  bound  to  Carolina  and 
Maryland,  21  September  1685,  proved  1  September  1686.  I  give  and  be- 
queath unto  my  loving  cousin  Lawrence  Stephenson,  citizen  and  ironmonger 
of  London,  twenty  pounds,  to  buy  him  mourning,  and  twenty  pounds  more. 
The  residue  to  my  honored  father  Thomas  Breedon  of  Southmorton,  Oxon, 
gen'.  And  I  appoint  my  said  cousin  Lawrence  Stevenson  full  and  sole 
executor.  Lloyd,  114. 

Thomas  Brumpsted  of  Midgham,  Berks  Esq.  26  February  1689. 
proved  20  October  1690.  Two  leases  I  hold  from  the  Dean  and 'Chapter 
of  Westminster  settled  on  my  wife  in  part  of  her  jointure.  My  brother 
Mr  Charles  Brumpsted  and  my  friend  Mr  Edward  Noell  to  sell  the  manor 
of  Midgham  and  the  lands  which  I  lately  purchased  from  Mr.  Richard 
Garrett  and  all  other  my  estate  in  Berks.  After  payment  of  my  debts  the 
residue  to  be  equally  divided  between  my  daughter  Lucy  Brumpsted  and 
my  sou  Charles  (both  under  twenty-one).  If  either  die  the  share  of  him 
or  her  so  dieing  to  go  to  the  survivor  and  my  sou  John.  If  both  die  then 
both  shares  to  my  son  John.     To  the  said  John  the  messuage  or  inn  called 


. 


128  Genealogical  Gleanings  in  England.  [Jan. 

the  King's  Head,  in  the  Strand,  after  the  death  of  my  wife  Martha.  (Other 
property,  including  the  Greyhound  Tavern  in  the  Strand.)  Brother  and 
sister  in  law  Sir  John  Friend  and  the  Lady  Anne  his  wife.  Brother  in  law 
and  sister  Timothy  Dodd  and  Elizabeth  his  wife.  My  brother  in  law 
Robert  Breedon.  Dyke,  146. 

Jane  Breedon  of  Great  Chesham,  Bucks,  widow,  15  September  1628, 
proved  15  February  1632.  To  my  two  sous  Zacheus  and  Benaia  Breedon, 
ten  shillings  apiece.  To  Bethsheba  Grover,  my  daughter,  twenty  pounds 
(and  certain  household  stuff).  Priscilla  Grover,  her  daughter.  To  Banna 
Wigge,  my  daughter,  other  twenty  pounds  &c.  To  Obadiah  Tailer,  my 
grandchild,  twenty  pounds  if  he  shall  live  .to  have  children  &c.  The  poor 
of  Great  C'uesham.  The  residue  to  my  daughter  Abigail  Gladman.  I 
make  Elkana  Gladman,  my  son  in  law,  full  and  sole  executor,  and  my  well 
beloved  kinsmen  Humphrey  Greeneway  of  Great  Chesham,  Glover,  and 
Isaac  Raveninge  ah  Carter,  of  West  Wickcoinbe,  overseers. 

Russell,  12. 

[The  above  seemed  worth  saving  on  account  of  the  meution  of  a  son  Zacheus 
Breedon,  thus  sunuesting  a  relatiouship  with  our  Capt.  Thomas  Breedon  of 
Boston.  H.I\  W.] 

Robert  Dalyber  of  Selliettes  in  the  parish  of  Stoke  Abbot,  Dorset, 
yeoman,  20  March  1632,  proved  27  May  1633.  To  be  buried  in  the 
churchyard  of  Stoke  Abbot  before  the  church  porch,  between  the  Thorn 
and  the  Church  porch  there,  near  the  place  where  my  father  was  buried. 
And  my  will  and  desire  is  that  I  may  have  a  tomb  set  over  me,  and  towards 
that  charge  I  give  thirteen  shillings  four  pence.  The  poor  and  the  church 
remembered.  I  give  to  my  second  son  Tristran  Daliber  fifty  pounds;  to 
be  paid  in  two  years  and  ten  pounds  more  of  the  money  due  upon  bond  by 
Edward  Cotherington,  gen',  at  Michaelmas  1640.  To  son  Samuel  fifty 
pounds  and  also  twenty  pounds  (as  above)  in  May  1635.  To  son  Joseph 
fifty  pounds  and  also  ten  pounds  (as  above)  1640.  To  my  daughter  Mary 
Dalyber  fifty  pounds.  To  my  daughter  Sara  Daliber  fifty  pounds.  To 
my  youngest  daughter  Rebecca  Daliber  fifty  pounds.  My  two  sons  in  law 
"Walter  Burt  and  John  Lesty.  Josias  Burt  eldest  son  of  Walter.  Tue 
three  sons  of  John  Lesty,  John,  Edward  and  William.  My  wife.  The 
residue  to  my  eldest  son  Robert  Daliber  whom  I  make  sole  executor.  ■» 

Russell,  48. 

George  Salter  of  Dedham,  Essex,  grazier,  7  September  1653,  proved 
18  July  1654.  To  my  son  Samuel  Salter  my  house  and  lands  in  Rattles- 
den,  Suffolk,  he  paying  to  my  loving  wife  four  pounds  a  year  during  her 
natural  life,  she  payiug  the  fine  at  his  admittance.  And  my  son  Samuel 
shall  pay  unto  my  daughter  Abigail  in  New  England,  if  she  be  yet  living 
or  if  she  hath  any  children,  ten  pounds  within  two  years  after  my  decease, 
and  to  give  to  my  daughter  Hanna  in  xs'ew  England,  if  she  be  yet  living 
or  if  she  have  any  children,  ten  pounds  within  four  years  after  my  wife's 
decease.  If  either  of  them  die  and  leave  no  children  her  portion  shall  be 
giveu,  half  of  it  to  my  son  Theophilus  and  half  of  it  to  my  daughter  surviving; 
and  if  both  of  them  depart  and  leave  no  children  I  give  it  unto  my  son 
Samuel.  To  my  son  Thomas  five  pounds  and  to  Theophilus  five  pounds. 
Five  shillings  ea;h  to  my  daughters  Abigail  and  Hannah.  The  remainder 
to  my  wife  whom  I  ordain  to  be  my  sole  executrix. 

Proved  by  the  oath  of  Mary  Salter  the  relict  and  executrix. 

Alchin,  65. 


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[A  Theophiins  Salter,  of  Ipswich  1648,  was  cm  June  30,  1653,  sentenced  to 
pay  £5,  the  witness  and  fees,  for  endeavouring  to  marry  Mary  Smith  Avithout 
her  friends'  consent,  according  to  Felt. — \V.  K.  Watkins.] 

Edward  Bullocke  of  Queen's  College,  Oxford.  Bachelor  of  Arts,  10 
October  19th  James,  proved  2  November  1621.  My  body  to  be  buried  in 
the  church  of  the  parish  of  St.  Peters'  in  the  East,  Oxford.  To  my  aunt 
Mrs.  Priscilia  Bullocke  one  hundred  pounds.  To  aunt  Mrs.  Sarah  Knighte, 
wife  of  Thomas  Knighte,  of  Worliugham  Suffolk,  parson,  forty  pounds. 
To  my  uncle  Rowland  Wilson,  citizen  and  vintner  of  London,  and  to  Mary 
his  wife  five  pounds  apiece  to  buy  them  rings.  To  my  uncle  Richard  Newell 
of  London,  clothworker,  and  Jaue  his  wife  five  pounds  apiece  to  buy  them 
rings.  To  the  aforesaid  Thomas  Knighte  ten  pounds.  To  Michael  Dover 
of  London,  scrivener,  forty  pounds,  and  I  forgive  him  twenty  pounds  he 
oweth  me  &e.  To  William  Tifiiu  of  London,  mercer,  his  three  children, 
viz*  Benjamin,  Mary  and  Alice,  live  pounds  auiece.  To  the  children  of 
the  within  specified  Rowland  Wilson,  viz'.  Rowland  and  John,  Mary,  Eliza- 
beth, Jane,  Sarah  and  Mabel,  five  pounds  apiece.  To  Sarah  Titiiue's  four 
children,  John,  Richard,  Mary  and  Jane,  twenty  pounds  apiece.  To  the  poor 
of  St.  Paneras  in  Soper  Laue,  Loudon,  ten  pounds  and  of  St.  Peter's  the 
East  in  Oxford  ike  pounds.  Five  pounds  to  be  bestowed  in  books  towards 
the  Library  of  Queen's  College,  Oxford.  To  my  loving  friend  Mr.  Tomp- 
sod,  who  was  my  tutor,  forty  shillings  to  buy  him  a  ring.  To  the  minister 
that  shall  preach  at  my  funeral  twenty  shillings.  The  residue  to  my  loving 
uncles  Melchesidick  Bullocke  and  William  Tiifine,  whom  I  make  my  sole 
executors  &c.,  and  I  do  make  Rowland  Wilson  and  Richard  Newell  super- 
visors. 

Wit:  Adam  Airay,  Avery  Thompson,  Thomas  Midleton.        Dale,  96. 

George  Benson.  Will  written  and  subscribed  with  my  own  hand  at 
my  house  at  Patchinge  July  seventh  1629,  proved  30  April  1632.  My 
wife  (whom  I  make  my  executor)  shall  have  one  fourth  part  of  the  clear 
temporal  estate  which  it  shall  please  God  to  grant  rue  at  my  decease,  aud 
the  rest  to  be  equally  divided  amongst  my  children,  whom  I  hope  she  will 
be  careful  to  bring  up  in  the  nurture  and  admonition  of  the  Lord.  To  the 
poor  of  each  of  the  two  parishes  committed  to  my  charge  I  do  give  twenty 
shillings.  To  every  of  them  that  shall  be  my  covenant  servants  at  my  decease 
I  do  give  five  shillings.  Overseers  of  this  my  will  I  do  appoint  my  trusty 
friends  and  loving  brethren  Mr.  Henry  Carleton  and  Mr.  Thomas  Vicers. 
And  I  do  desire  aud  hope  my  loving  nephew  Mr.  Rowland  Wilson  will  be 
a  friend  unto  my  children  as  he  hath  been  to  me  at  all  times. 

Commission  issued  to  Henry  Carlton  to  administer  the  goods  &c.  during 
the  minorities  of  George,  Michael,  Edward  and  Alice  Benson,  the  children, 
for  the  reason  that  he  named  no  executor.  Audley,  40. 

Robert  Wilson  citizen  and  draper  of  London,  2  January  1639,  proved 
18  January  1639.  My  body  to  be  buried  in  the  parish  church  of  St.  Bennett 
Sherhogg  in  Cheap  Ward  in  London,  if  1  shall  die  in  Loudon  or  no  further 
out  of  the  said  city  than  Stoke  Newington,  Midd.  Mention  of  Theophiius 
Biddulye  aud  Robert  Birkenad,  now  copartners  with  me.  My  goods  &c. 
to  be  divided  into  three  equal  parts,  according  to  the  ancient  custom  of  the 
city  of  Loudon,  one  part  for  Catharine  Wilson  my  well  beloved  wife,  one 
to  and  among  all  my  now  children  &o.  and  the  third  I  reserve  for  the 
performance  of  my  will,  in  legacies  &c.     I  give  to  my  wife  my  lease  and 

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130  Genealogical  Gleanings  in  England.  [Jan. 

interest  of  and  in  my  now  dwelling  house  in  Cheap  Side  London  and  the 
lease  of  my  house  in  Stoke  Newington  &c.  Son  Thomas  (under  twenty- 
one)  to  have  ray  lease  cLc.  of  two  messuages  &c.  in  Pater  Noster  Row.  now 

or  late  in  the  tenure  &c.  of Row  and  Edward  Johnson,  he  to  pay  a 

certaiu  annuity  to  my  sister  Margaret  Verney.  If  Thomas  should  die  before 
he  reaches  the  said  age  then  the  lease  to  go  to  my  son  Richard  (subject  to 
the  same  condition).  To  my  sister  in  law  Anne  Wilson,  widow,  lace  the 
wife  of  Samuel  Wilson  my  brother  deceased,  forty  pouuds,  and  six  pounds 
for  mourning.  To  her  son  Samuel  Wilson,  whom  I  have  [.laced  apprentice 
with  Mr.  Rowland  Wilson,  fifty  pounds  &c,  and  fortv  shillings  also  for 
mourning.  To  every  other  of  the  six  children  of  my  said  late  brother 
Samuel,  viz'  Anne,  Roda,  Sara,  Symon,  Rowland  and  Robert  Wilson,  fifty 
pounds  apiece  (with  provision  for  education  &c.  during  their  minorities). 
I  give  seventeen  pounds  to  be  bestowed  in  mourning  for  the  said  six  other 
children. 

Item,  I  give  and  bequeath  unto  my  brother  Richard  Wilsou  the  sum  of 
one  hundred  marks,  to  be  paid  him  within  one  year  next  after  my  decease, 
or  sooner  if  his  urgent  occasions  require  the  same  and   he  make    request 
therefor  to  my  executrix.     And,  if  he  come  not  over  from  Virginia,  if  he  send 
sufficient  authority  for  the  same  his  legacy  shall  be  sent  unto  him  in  such 
commodities  as  he  shall  send  for.     I  forgive  him  also  and  acquit  and  dis- 
charge him  from  all  such  sums  as  he  doth  now  owe  me  by  bond,  book  or 
any  other  obligation  whatsoever.     And  I  give  him  my  interest  in  the  shop 
in   Soper   Lane  which  I  hold  by  lease  from  him.     I  give  to  my  godson 
Kobert  Wilson,  son  of  my  said  brother  Richard,  fifty  pounds,  to  be  paid  at 
the  accomplishment  of  his  age  of  one   and  twenty  years.     I  give  to   my 
brother  Richard's  other  son,  Richard  Wilson,  fifty  pounds    (as   before).     I 
give  to  the  hist  child  of  my  said  brother  Richard  which  was  born  in  Vir- 
ginia, begotteu  of  the  body  of  Katheriue,  now  or  late  his  wife,  twentv-five 
pouuds,  to  be  paid  at  the  accomplishment  of  his  or  her  age  of  twenty-one. 
To  my  sister  Margaret  Varney  one  annuity  of  twelve  pounds,  payable  to 
the  messuages  &c.   in   Pater   Noster  Row   aforesaid,   to   hold   during  her 
natural  life,  &c,  and  I  forgive    and    remit    unto    her    all    the    debts    she 
oweth  me,  by  book  or  otherwise.     I  give  to  John  Varney,  sou  of  my  sistt  r 
Varney,  fifty  pounds   (at  one  aud  twenty)  and  to   Katheriue  Varney,  tier 
daughter,  fifty  pounds.     To  my  sister,  for  mourning,  six  pouuds  and  to  each 
of  her  two  children  forty  shillings  apiece.     To  my  brother  in   law  Edward 
Lycoris  and  to  Mary  his  wife,  my  sister,  fifty  pounds;  and  twelve  pouuds  to 
them  also  for  mourning.    I  forgive  unto  my  brother  in  law  Edward  Browninge 
twenty  pounds  which  he  did  borrow  of  me  and  twenty  pounds   more.     I 
I  also  give  to  my  said  brother  in  law  Edward  Browning  and  his  wife,  my 
sister,  twelve  pounds  for  mourning;  and  to  such  child  of  my  said  brother 
Browninge   and  his  now  wife   as  shall  be   living  at  my   decease,  twenty 
pouuds.     To  Sarah  Watson,  my  said  sister's  daughter  by  a  former  husband 
"deceased,  fifty  pouuds  (at  one  and  twenty)  and  my  executrix  to  allow  four 
pounds  a  year  toward  the  better  education  and  maintenance  of  the  same 
Sara  &c.     Provision  in  case  she  be  put  to  service  aud  bound  apprentice. 
To  Mary  Watson,  sister  of  the  said  Sarah,  twenty  pouuds  &c.     To  Ann 
Smith,  daughter  unto  my  sister  Anne  Smith  deceased,  fifty  pouuds  (at  one 
and  twenty).     To  my  mother  in  law  Mrs.  Rudd  ten  pounds  and  also  six 
pounds  for  mourning.     To  my  sister  in  law  Margaret   Rudd  four  pounds 
for  mourning.     To  my  sister  Anne  Rudd  ten  pouuds  in  money  aud  also  five 
pouuds  for  mourning.     To  my  brother  in  law  William  Williams  and  Eliza- 


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beth  his  wife  ten  pounds  for  mourning  and  also  to  the  said  Elizabeth  five 
pounds.  I  forgive  to  my  brother  Thomas  Rtidd,  my  wife's  own  brother,  the 
money  he  oweth  me  by  book,  for  goods  he  had  of  me  (about  three  score 
pounds)  and  I  give  him  five  pounds  for  mourning,  and  five  pound*  more  as 
a  legacy.  Sundry  bequests  to  friends.  To  my  cousin  John  Awbrey  the 
elder  forty  shillings.  To  cousin  Mr.  Gilbert  Harrison,  alderman,  and  to  my 
loving  kinswoman,  his  wife,  four  pounds  apiece  to  mike  them  rings.  To 
my  cousin  Christopher  Clarke  four  pounds  to  make  him  a  ring.  To  my 
cousin  Mary  Morgan  three  pounds.  To  Magdalen  Burnett  widow,  my 
wife's  aunt,  forty  shillings.  To  Elizabeth  Burton  daughter  of  Elizabeth 
Burton,  my  wife's  kinswoman  dwelling  with  me,  ten  pounds.  To  my  aunt 
Ferris  and  her  daughter  forty  shillings  apiece.  One  hundred  pounds  to 
the  Company  of  Drapers.  To  sundry  Hospitals  and  parishes  &c.  To  my 
cousin  Ledir.gham  and  his  wife  twelve  pounds  for  mourning.  To  his  son 
my  godson  thirty  pounds.  The  residue  to  my  wife  Catharine  whom  I  make 
sole  executrix.  I  give  my  lands  called  Gallyons,  lying  in  Eastham  and 
Woolwich,  which  I  purchased  of  the  Lord  Savage,  to  my  son  Robert  Wil- 
son, with  remainder  to  sons  Richard  and  Thomas  and  next  to  my  two  eldest 
daughters  Anne  and  Katharine  Wilson.  A  messuage  &c.  in  Swan  Alley 
near  Coleman  Street  to  my  son  Richard.  Coventry,  11. 

[Hotten  gives  in  his  original  lists,  p.  105,  under  date  of  6  July,  1635,  in  the 
Paul  of  London  bound  for  Virginia,  Katherine  Wilson,  age  28  years,  and 
two  children,  Robert  and  Richard  Wilson,  a<ie  6  and  5  years  respectively. 

On  p.  94.  under  date  20  June.  1635,  in  the  Philip  for  Virginia,  was  Richard 
Wilson.  The  age  of  this  Richard  is  sriven  as  19  years,  which,  however,  may  be 
an  error,  and-the  above  the  Wilson  family  of  Virginia  alluded  to  in  the  will  of 
Robert  Wilson. — W.  K.  Watkins.] 

Rape  (Randolph)  Ingram:  citizen  and  iremonger  of  London.  14  June 
1644,  proved  19  December  1  644.  Wife  Mary.  My  four  sons,  Rowland, 
John,  Raph  and  George  Ingram  (all  under  one  and  twenty  years  of  age). 
To  my  mother,  Mary  Ingram,  one  hundred  and  fifty  pounds.  My  brother 
William  Ingram  and  his  wife.  Mv  brother  Robert  Ingram  and  his  wife 
and  six  children,  vizf  Mary,  Anne,  Richard,  Sarah  and  one  other  whose 
name  I  do  not  remember.  My  brother  in  law  William  Harrison.  My 
brother  Thomas  Ingram.  My  brother  Arthur  Ingram.  The  children  of 
my  brother  and  sister  Harrison,  viz1  Mary  and  Alice.  Mr.  Rowland  Wil- 
son the  elder  and  his  wife  and  Mr.  Rowland  Wilson  the  younger  and  his 
wife.  My  cousin  Mary  Crispe  the  wife  of  doctor  Crispe  deceased.  Mr. 
Henry  St.  John  and  his  wife.  Mr.  John  Wood  and  his  wife.  Others 
named.  Wife  Mary  to  be  executrix  and  Mr.  Rowland  Wilson  the  eider, 
Rowland  Wilson  the  younger,  Mr.  Henry  St.  John  and  my  brother  Robert 
Ingram  to  be  overseers.  To  old  Mrs.  Carleton  at  Rotterdam  ten  pounds 
and  to  Mr.  Edmand  White  of  Rotterdam  ten  pounds.  To  Mary  Soames 
now  dwelling  in  Duke's  Place  five  pounds.  And  my  desire  is.  in  regard 
of  these  troblesome  times,  to  be  privately  buried  in  a  decent  manner,  and 
no  mourners  to  be  thereat  but  my  own  family. 

Commission  issued  to  Rowland  Wilson  Senr  and  Rowland  Wilson  junr 
executors  of  the  will  of  Mary  Ingram  who  had  departed  this  life  before 
taking  upon  herself  the  burden  of  executorship.  Rivers,  16. 

Mart  Ingram:  widow,  10  October  1644,  proved  19  December  1644. 
My  three  sisters,  Katherine,  Jane  and  Dorothy.  My  mother  in  law  Mary 
Ingram.     My  brother  Robert  and  his  wife  and  their  children.     My  brother 


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132  ,  Genealogical  Gleanings  in  England.  [Jan. 

William  Ingram  and  his  wife.  My  brother  Harrison  and  his  wife  and  their 
two  daughters.  Thomas  and  Arthur  Ingram.  My  loving  kinsman  Rowland 
Wilson  the  elder  and  Rowland  Wilson  the  younger  to  be  full  and  sole 
executors  &c.  Mrs.  Mary  Grispe  the  elder.  Mrs.  Mary  Soame.  Mrs. 
Boylston.  All  the  children  of  Mary  Crispe.  Others.  For  mourning  I 
leave  to  my  uncle  and  cousin  Wilson  to  take  care  of  and  order  and  to  see 
me  decently  interred.  Rivers,  1G. 

Ka.thf.rixe  Highlord  of  London  widow.  22  May  1G48.  proved  20  July 
1648.  My  body  to  be  buried  in  a  strong  wainscot  coffin  within  the  parish 
church  of  Rennet  Sherfug.  London,  as  near  unto  the  place  there  where  my 
first  husband,  Robert  Wilson,  lyeth  buried  as  conveniently  may  be.  It 
shall  be  buried  by  night,  within  three  days  after  my  decease,  without  any 
vain  glory  or  pomp,  a; id  no  more  than  friends  and  near  acquaintance  to  be 
invited  to  my  burial.  Bequests  to  the  poor  and  to  sundry  prisons.  The 
poor  where  I  sometimes  lived  in  Mark  Lane.  To  my  dear  mother  Mrs. 
Anne  Rudd  twenty  pounds  for  a  ring  and  ten  pounds  for  mourning.  To 
my  sister  Margaret  Rudd.  for  a  ring  and  mourning,  one  hucdred  pounds. 
To  ray  sister  Martin  twenty  pounds  for  a  ring  and  ten  pounds  for  mourning. 
To  my  sister  Williams  twenty  pounds  and  ten  pounds  for  mourning.  To 
my  sister  Gower  ten  pounds  for  mourning.  To  my  brothers  in  law  Mr 
Gower,  Mr.  Martin  and  Mr.  Williams  six  pounds  apiece  for  mourning  cloaks. 
To  my  brother  Thomas  Rudd  one  bundled  pounds  and  ten  pounds  for 
mourning  and  to  my  sister,  his  wife,  five  pounds  for  mourning  and  ten 
pounds  for  a  ring.  To  William  and  Anne  Williams,  my  sister's  children, 
twenty  pounds  apiece  to  be  paid  at  the  accomplishment  of  their  several  ages 
of  one  and  twenty  years,  and  to  Katherine  and  Margaret  Williams  my 
cousins  (at  one  and  twenty)  fifty  pounds  apiece.  To  Robert  Birkinhead, 
my  sister's  son,  fifty  pounds  at  one  and  twenty.  To  Theophilus  Birken- 
head and  Susan  Birkenhead  twenty  pounds  (at  one  and  twenty).  To 
Thomas  Rudd  son  of  my  brother  Thomas  one  hundred  pounds  at  twenty 
one.  To  Anne  Rudd,  his  daughter,  twenty  pounds  at  one  and  twenty.  To 
my  aunt  Mainwareing  and  my  aunt  Ferris  ten  pounds  apiece.  To  my  cousin 
Samuel  Wilson  for  mourning  t.Sn  pounds.  To  my  sister  in  law  Anne  Wil- 
son ten  pounds.  To  my  cousin  Sara  Fowke  twenty  pounds.  To  my  cousins 
Robert  Wilson  and  Rowland  Wilson  fifty  pounds  apiece  at  one  and  twenty. 
To  John  Warney,  Katherine  Warney.  Sarah  Watson,  Mary  Watson,  my 
cousins,  and  to  the  son  of  my  cousin  Anne  Wil.-on  deceased  twenty  pounds 
apiece  at  one  and  twenty-  To  Robert  Wilson  and  Richard  Wilson,  my 
cousins  now  in  Virginia  fifty  pounds  apiece  at  one  and  twenty.  To  my 
sister  Greene  and  my  sister  Browning  twenty  pounds  apiece  to  make  them 
rings  and  for  mourning.  My  cousin  Sarah  Parham.  Mr.  Taylor  in  Cole- 
mau  St.  minister.  My  cousin  Anne  Smith.  My  daughter  Katherine  Aus- 
tin and  her  now  husband.  My  daughter  Mary  Wilson  (under  seventeen 
years  of  age).  My  daughter  Martha  Wilson  (uuder  sixteen).  My  son 
Robert  Wilson.  My  grandchild  Thomas  Awsten.  My  cousins  Margaret, 
Katherine  and  Edith  Rudd.  Elizabeth,  John,  Robert  and  Richard  Rudd. 
My  cousin  Thomas  Rudd,  son  of  my  uncle  Thomas.  Certain  messuages 
&C  the  manor  of  Keythorpe  in  the  County  of  Leicester  which  I  purchased 
of  Francis  Wayte  Gen'  the  one  half  I  give  to  my  sou  Richard  Wilson  and 
the  other  half  to  Thomas,  my  son  Robert  to  have  it  all  in  his  custody  until 
both  my  sons  accomplish  the  age  of  one  and  twenty  years.  My  said  son 
Robert  to  be  full  and  sole  executor  and  my  sen  in  law  Thomas  Awsten  and 
my  brother  Thomas  Rudd  overseers.  Essex,  116. 


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Rowland  Wilson  the  younger  of  London  Esq.,  one  of  the  sheriffs  of  the 
City  of  Loudon,  16  February  1649.  First  I  do  request  my  de;ir  and  loving 
wife  that  she  accept  of  three  thousand  five  hundred  pounds  (being;  the  por- 
tion I  had  with  her)  and  all  my  Jewells,  plate  and  household  stuff  (besides 
her  jointure  which  I  do  hereby  confirm)  iu  lieu  and  satisfaction  of  her  cus- 
tomary part  appertaining  to  her  by  the  custom  of  London  out  of  my  per- 
sonal estate,  which  if  she  will  accept  of  then  I  do  will  my  father  shall  bear 
the  funeral  charges  for  my  burial  and  satisfy  and  pay  all  my  debts  out  of 
the  residue  of  my  estate  hereafter  id  this  will  bequeathed  to  him.  To  my 
brother  in  law  Samuel  Wilson  and  his  wife  one  hundred  pounds  apiece. 
To  my  brother  John  Carleton  and  his  wife  one  hundred  pounds  apiece  and 
to  Bijdey  Carleton  one  hundred  pounds  and  to  Samuel  Carleton  my  best 
saddle  horse.  To  my  sister  Mary  Crispe  three  hundred  pounds.  To 
William  Hirdson  and  his  wife  fifty  pounds  apiece.  To  Anne  Coxe  and  her 
daughter  fifty  pounds  in  lieu  of  what  I  owe  them.  To  Joane  Hasell  tea 
pounds.  To  Mrs  Ingram,  my  cousin  Raphe  Ingram's  mother,  fifty  pounds. 
To  Mr.  George  Cokaiue  and  his  wife,  uow  being  with  me.  fifty  pounds 
apiece.  Certain  bequests  to  the  poor  &c.  To  my  brother  White,  for  the 
use  of  his  three  eldest  children,  three  hundred  pounds.  To  my  cousiu 
George  Wilson  ten  pounds.  Others.  The  rest  to  my  father  Rowland 
Wilson  Esq.  My  wife  Mary  to  be  sole  executrix  and  Mr  Thomas  Smith 
the  accomptant  overseer. 

Commission  2  April  1650  to  Rowland  Wilson  the  father  to  administer 
(with  the  will  annexed)  Mary  Wilson  the  relict  and  executrix  having  re- 
nounced. Pembroke,  56. 

John  Carter  of  London,  gentleman,  25  July  1649,  proved  4  October 
1650.  Brother  William  Carter  and  his  wife  and  their  son  William  Carter. 
My  brother  in  law  Gabriel  Miller  and  his  son  William  Miller.  William'3 
mother,  my  sister,  Anne  Miller.  Her  two  children  Anne  and  Matthew  Miller. 
My  brother  in  law  Richard  Aspelin  arid  my  sister  Aspelin,  his  wife  and  her 
two  daughters.  My  brother  in  law  Thomas  Smiuell  and  his  wife,  my  sister, 
Elizabeth  Sminell.  My  sister  in  law  Edith  Carter,  late  wife  of  my  brother 
Nicholas  Carter,  and  her  daughter  Barbara  Carter.  My  brother  in  law 
Thomas  Colpott  and  his  sons  John  Colpott  and  Thomas  Colpott.  The 
parish  of  Eaton  in  Bedfordshire  where  I  was  born.  My  cousin  Francis 
Wiltou  of  that  parish.  My  cousin  Anne  Wilson.  Mrs.  Wilkinson  whose 
son  lives  with  my  said  cousin  Wilson.  My  cousin  Samuel  Wilson's  wife. 
My  cousin  Thomas  Fowke's  wife.  My  cousin  Symon  Wilson.  My  cousins 
Rowland  Wilsou  and  Robert  Wilson.  I  make  said  cousins  Anne  Wilson, 
Samuel  Wilson  and  Thomas  Fowke  executors  dec. 

Then  follows  a  letter For  my  couziu  Anne  Wilson  at  the  Naggs- 

head  Tavern  near  Blackwell  Hall,  and  for  my  cozen  Samuel  Wilson  mer- 
chant in  Bishopsgate  Street  near  Gressum  College  and  to  my  cozen  Thomas 
Fooke  grocer  near  Lawrence  Church  &c.  Reference  made  to  his  departure 
from  England.     My  cozen  William  Miller  I  hear  isjaow  come  for  Ireland. 

Pembroke,  165. 

Rowland  Wilson  of  London,  Esq.  and  citizen  and  vintner  of  London, 
5  February  1651  proved  1  June  1654.  My  body  to  be  buried  in  the  parish 
church  of  St.  Martin  Outwich,  where  I  now  dwell.  My  wife  Mary  shall 
hold  for  life  my  house  and  site  of  the  late  Priory  of  Merton  alias  Marten  &c. 
in  Surrey  which  I  purchased  of  Sir  Francis  Clake,  knight,  on  or  about  19 
vol.  xlviii.  12* 


134  -     Genealogical  Gleanings  in  England.  [Jan. 

June  1624,  and  lands  purchased  of  William  Carpenter  16  August  1635  and 
3  January  1623.  After  her  decease  I  give  said  premises  in  trust  to  Samuel 
Wilson  merchant  and  Thomas  Boultou  cooper  (my  friends)  to  sell  the  same 
and  dispose  of  tlie  proceeds  according  to  ray  will.  To  Ellis  Crispe  son  of 
my  daughter  Mary  Howe  my  tenements  in  Wimbledon,  Barnes,  Mortlake, 
and  Wauodsworth  Surrey  &c.  chargeable  with  annuities  unto  his  brethren 
and  sisters,  Tobias,  Samuel,  Edward,  Rowland  and  Hester  Crispe.  I  give 
my  messuage  or  dwelling  house  &c.  in  St.  Martyn  Outwich  unto  my  grand- 
child, Ellis  Crispe,  and  the  two  tenements  thereunto  adjoining  unto  my 
grandchild  Tobias  Crispe.  I  give  to  my  two  grandchildren  Edmond 
White  and  Rowland  White,  sons  of  my  late  daughter  Elizabeth  White,  my 
copyhold  lands  at  Tottenham  High  Cross  in  Middlesex.  My  lands  at  Bowe 
and  Bromly  in  Middlesex  I  give  to  my  daughter  Mary  Rowe,  uuw  wife  of 
Col.  Owen  Rowe,  for  life  and  after  her  decease  to  my  grandchildren  Edward 
Crispe  aud  Ro  viand  Crispe.  To  my  grandchild  Samuel  Crispe  the  Tavern 
called  the  Kings  Arms  over  against  Iremonger  Lane's  End  in  St.  Lawrence 
in  the  0  d  Jewry,  London,  aud  the  two  tenements  adjoining,  in  Basishaw 
Street  in  the  parish  cf  St.  Michael  Basishaw.  Other  lands  and  houses 
bequeathed.  A  yearly  annuity  to  Wiliiam  Heardson  and  Anne  his  wife. 
The  Worshipful  Company  of  Vintners  whereof  I  am  a  member.  My 
lands,  tenements-  and  hereditaments  in  Greegarth  in  the  parish  of  Kendall 
in  Westmoreland  to  my  grandchild  Ellis  Crispe,  subject  to  a  trust.  Refer- 
ence to  the  sous  of  said  daughter  Mary  Rowe  by  her  late  husband  Doctor 
Tobias  Crispe.  Rowland,  Ellis  and  Mary  Carleton,  children  of  Mary 
Carleton,  daughter  of  my  said  daughter  Mary  Rowe.  My  brother  in  law 
Christopher  Sands,  late  husband  of  my  sister  Rebecka  aud  her  children. 
My  cousin  George  Wilson.  My  godsou  Rowland  Ingram.  My  sister  in 
law  Jaue  Newell.  My  godson  Benjamin  son  of  my  brother  in  law  William 
Tiffen.  All  my  other  lands  &c.  to  the  said  Samuel  Wilson  and  Thomas 
Boylston  (in  trust).  To  the  wife  of  the  said  Samuel  WTilson  five  pounds 
for  a  ring  and  to  my  cousin  Thomas  Boylston's  wife  five  pounds  for  a 
riDg. 

In  a  codicil  dated  12  April  1654  he  appointed  his  wife  Mary  Wilson  aud 
grandson  Samuel  Crispe  executors  instead  of  Samuel  Wilson  and  Thomas 
Boylstou.  Andrew  Middletou  and  George  Thimbleby  to  be  overseers. 
Another  codicil  was  added  26  April  1654.  Alchin,  41. 

The  same  will  was  also  registered  the  next  year  (1655)  in  Book  Aylett, 
321,  where  also  appears  record  of  a  sentence  for  confirmation  of  the  said 
will  in  a  cause  promoted  by  Mary  Wilson  the  relict  and  Samuel  Crispe  the 
graudchild,  executors  of  the  said  Will  and  Testament,  against  Edmund 
White  the  younger,  Elizabeth  Cox  otherwise  White,  aud  Mary  D<ivy, 
otherwise  White,  grandchildren  also  of  the  deceased.  Aylett,  321. 

Dated  25  May  1655. 

Jane  Newell  of  Merton  Abbey,  Surrey,  widow,  28  December  1657, 
proved  26  February  1657.  To  be  buried  with  decency  and  good  order, 
without  any  pompe  or  vain  show.  To  my  kiusmau  Richard  Newell  the 
threescore  pounds  which  I  have  settled  in  the  hands  of  my  cousin  Thomas 
Boylston  in  trust,  to  be  paid  to  him  when  he  sets  up  his  trade  of  vintner, 
as  by  writing  dated  the  eight  and  twentieth  day  of  November  last  past.  If 
he  die  before  this  sum  is  due  him  I  give  twenty  pounds  thereof  to  his  father 
Thomas  Newell,  ten  pounds  to  my  cousin  Josias  Solmes,  ten  pounds  to 


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Jane  the  daughter  of  Robert  Newell.  Gifts  to  Richard  Newell,  to  cousin 
Solutes'  children,  to  cousin  Samuel  Crispe,  the  writer  of  the  will,  to  Mary 
Bodwell,  to  Mr.  John  Dawes,  minister,  and  to  Elizabeth  Maiur.  Forty 
shillings  tc  my  sister  Wilson  to  bestow  on  the  poor.  The  residue  to  my 
loving  cousin  Henry  Middleton  and  to  Alice  his  wife,  and  I  do  appoint  my 
said  cousin  Henry  Middletou  to  be  my  sole  executor,  and  I  desire  my  cousin 
Thomas  Boykton  and  my  cousin  Samuel  Crispe  to  be  overseers,  and  I  give 
to  each  of  them  twenty  shillings. 

Wit:  Tobias  Crispe,  Samuel  Crispe.  Wootton,  80. 

Mary  Wilson,  in  the  Co.  of  Surrey,  widow,  8  September  1659,  proved 
3  October  1662.  My  body  to  be  buried  in  Martin's  Outwich  Church,  Lon- 
don, near  my  late  deceased  husband.  To  my  daughter  Mary  Rowe  one 
hundred  and  fifty  pounds.  To  my  son  Col.  Owen  Rowe  fifty  pounds.  To 
all  my  grandchildren  living  at  ray  decease  fifty  pounds  apiece,  viz'  Ellis, 
Tobias,  Samuel,  Edward  and  Rowland  Crispe,  Mary  Carleton,  Hester 
Brett,  Edmond  White,  Elizabeth  Cox  and  Mary  Dauye.  To  my  son  Col. 
Rowe's  three  daughters,  Susanna.  Sarah  and  Hannah,  two  pounds  apiece. 
To  Rowland  and  Mary  Carleton.  children  of  my  grandchild  Mary  Carleton, 
twenty  pounds  apiece.  To  Edward  Brett  one  hundred  pounds  and  Mary 
Brett  ten  pounds,  the  two  children  of  my  grandchild  Hester  Brett.  To 
Samuel  Wilson,  my  kinsman,  ten  pounds  and  to  his  wife  five  pounds.  To 
my  cousin  Thomas  Boylston  ten  pounds,  and  to  his  wife  five  pounds,  and  to 
his  daughter  Elizabeth  five  pounds.  To  Mary,  Josiah  and  Sarah  Solute, 
three  of  the  children  of  my  cousin  Edward  Solme.  To  my  cousin  Alice 
Midleton  fifty  pounds.  To  Andrew  Midleton  five  pounds  and  to  his  wife 
five  pounds.  To  Anne  Hindson  five  pounds.  Bequests  to  George  Thimel- 
bee,  Rowland,  John  and  Ralph  Ingram.  George  Ingram  my  godson.  My 
cousin  Bishop  widow.  Mary  Bodwell  and  her  sister  Anne  Tiffin.  Grace 
Dawson  and  her  two  daughters  Jane  and  Beck.  Mary  Crisp,  daughter  to 
my  grandson  Ellis  Crisp.  Alice  Clarke,  daughter  to  my  cousin  Anu  Cox. 
My  old  uncle  of  the  North  Countrey.  My  ten  grandchildren.  I  will 
that  Ellis  Crispe  shall  have  his  grandfather's  gold  seal  ring.  My  grandson 
Samuel  Crispe  to  be  sole  executor,  and  for  overseers  I  appoint  my  two 
grandchildren  John  Carleton  and  Tobias  Crisp.  My  godson  John  Crispe, 
one  of  the  sons  of  Sir  Nicholas  Crisp.  And  whereas  my  grandson  Tobias 
Crisp  opened  and  read  this  my  will  contrary  to  modesty  and  ingenuity  I  do 
for  his  so  doing  revoke  my  legacy  to  him  of  part  of  a  pearl  hatband  and 
give  his  part  to  my  daughter  Row. 

Sealed  10  September  1659.  A  codicil,  added  16  September  1661,  con- 
tains bequests  to  cousin  Dorothy  Scott,  Mrs.  Middletou  and  Mr.  Scott  at  the 
Abbey  gate  and  his  wife  and  to  others.  In  this  she  calls  herself  of  Mar- 
tine  (MertonJ  Abbey.  Laund,  133. 

Edmund  White  of  London  Esquire  4  August  1632,  proved  19  Feb- 
ruary 1632.  My  body  to  be  buried  in  the  parish  church  of  St.  Laurence 
in  the  Jewry,  Loudou,  as  near  unto  the  body  of  my  late  wife  Elizabeth  as 
conveniently  may  be.  I  have  heretofore  partly  advanced  my  son  Edmond, 
and  have  given  unto  him  one  thousand  five  hundred  pounds  and  have  also 
partly  advanced  my  daughter  Elizabeth  in  marriage  with  Gabriel  Newman, 
citizen  and  goldsmith  of  London,  and  given  with  her  one  thousand  pounds, 
and  have  advanced  my  daughter  Sarah  in  marriage  with  George  Hadley, 
citizen  and  grocer  of  London,  and  have  given  aud  secured  to  give  with  hur 


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one  thousand  pounds.  I  hereby  devise  and  appoint,  that  these  several  sums 
of  money  given  for  the  advancement  of  my  said  three  children  shall  he  put 
into  Hotch  pot  together  with  that  moiety  or  half  part  of  my  goods  and  per- 
sonal estate  &c.  which  by  the  Custom  of  London  shall  belong  unto  mv  chil- 
dren at  the  time  of  my  death  and  that  then  the  same  shall  be  equally  divided 
amongst  my  four  children,  viz'  Edmond,  James,  Elizabeth  and  Sara,  to  the 
end  that  all  my  children  may  be  equally  advanced  out  of  my  personal  estate 
according  to  the  ancient  and  laudable  Custom  of  the  City  of  Loudon.  The 
ether  half  commonly  called  the  Testator's  moiety,  deviseable  by  me,  I  do 
dispose  of  as  followeth.  Then  follow  certain  bequests.  Among  others  to 
daughter  in  law  Elizabeth  White,  the  wife  of  my  said  son  Edmond.  ten 
pounds  to  buy  her  a  ring.  To  his  children  living  at  my  decease  one  hun- 
dred pounds  apiece.  The  children  of  my  daughter  Elizabeth  Newman. 
The  children  of  my  daughter  Sara  Hadley.  My  sister  Alice  Fowlar  of 
Mickleton,  Glouc..  widow.  My  brother  John  "White  of  Patrichborne,  Kent. 
My  nephev;  John  Fowlar  of  Mickleton,  the  son  of  my  said  sister  Alice 
Fowlar.  My  kinsman  Thomas  Fowlar  of  London,  cordwainer.  My 
nephew  Edmond  Fowlar.  another  of  my  sister  Alice  Fowlar's  sons.  My 
niece  Joane  Fowlar  her  daughter.  Thomas  White  the  son  of  mv  late 
brother  Thomas  White  the  elder  deceased.  Agatha  Walker  the  daughter 
of  my  late  brother  Thomas  White  the  younger,  late  of  Hackney,  Midd*, 
deceased.  Her  sister  Ann.  The  poor  of  Mickleton  in  the  Co.  of  Glouces- 
ter where  I  was  born.  My  kinsman  William  Davies,  son  of  Thomas 
Davies,  citizen  and  merchant  tailor  of  London.  The  Company  of  Haber- 
dashers. Property  at  Powick  in  the  Co.  of  Worcester.  My  son  Edmond 
to  be  executor.  My  grandson  Edmond  White,  son  of  my  son  Edmond. 
My  son  James  White.  Russell,  14 

Anne  Herdso.n  of  Merton,  Surrey,  widow,  30  July  1668,  proved  16 
March  16G8.  To  be  buried  in  Merton  Churchyard  near  my  bite  hasband. 
Bequests  to  the  Right  Honorable  the  Lady  Whitlocke.  to  Mary  the  wife  of 
Col.  Owen  Rowe,  to  Lady  Whitlock's  son  Saniuel  Whitlock.  to  Robert 
Wilson  the  son  of  Robert  Wilsou  of  Merton  Esq.,  to  Rowland  Wilson  sou 
of  Samuel  Wilson  of  London,  merchant,  and  to  Lis  mother,  to  Allan  Boyls- 
ton  soti  of  Thomas  Boylston  of  London,  winecooper.  and  to  his  mother,  to 
the  grandchildren  of  Rowland  Wilson  Esquire  deceased,  to  the  three  chil- 
dren of  Mr.  Ellis  Crispe,  to  my  cousin  Mary  Bowman  daughter  ri  m? 
brother  John  Besford  deceased,  to  Eiizaheth  Moore  daughter  of  mv  hs-otl  ■:■■: 
Thomas  Besford  deceased,  to  Jane  Randolph  wife  of  John  Randolph  of. 
Westberry  in  the  Co.  of  Salop  and  her  children  John  and  Will  jam,  to  the 
poor  of  Westberry,  to  Mary  daughter  of  Alice  Besford  late  of  Westberry, 
widow,  deceased,  and  to  her  sister  Martha,  and  to  others.  The  two  chil- 
dren of  my  late  husband's  brother  who  heretofore  lived  near  Kendall  in 
Yorkshire.  My  nieces  Mary  Bowman  and  Elizabeth  Moore  to  be  joint 
executrices  and  Samuel  Wilson  of  Bishopsgate  Street,  London,  merchant, 
and  Thomas  Boylston  of  London,  winecooper,  to  be  overseers. 

Coke,  32. 

Edmund  White  the  elder,  citizen  and  haberdasher  of  London,  26  Nov- 
ember 1674,  proved  5  December  1C74.  To  my  sou  Edmund  all  my  estate, 
right,  title,  interest  &c,  granted  to  me  by  the  decree  of  the  Judicature  for 
Determination  of  Differences  touching  Houses  burnt  or  demolished  by 
reason  of  the  late  dismall  Fire  in  London,  of  and  in  those  tofts  and  grounds 


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in  St.  Laurence  Jewry  London  and  of  the  messuages  &c.  by  me  lately 
erected  thereon.  My  said  son  is  now  indebted  to  me  in  the  sura  of  five 
hundred  pounds.  I  did  heretofore  send  unto  my  son  in  law  Ilumfrey  Davie 
of  Boston  in  New  England  the  sum  of  six  hundred  pounds  upon  a  mortgage 
of  lands.  Three  hundred  pounds  of  it  is  hereby  remitted.  I  have  two 
hundred  and  fifty  pounds  capital  adventure  in  the  East  India  Stock  in  the 
name  of  my  son  in  law  Mr  William  Coxe.  The  household  goods  in  the 
house  of  my  said  son  in  law  William  Coxe,  wherein  I  now  dwell,  I  give  to 
my  daughter  Elizabeth  Coxe,  his  wife.  Personal  estate  to  be  divided  into 
two  equal  parts,  of  which  one  part  to  my  three  children,  Edmund  White, 
Elizabeth  Coxe  and  Mary  Davie.  The  other  part  for  legacies.  Ann 
Rogers  of  Hackney,  my  nephew  John  White,  my  cousin  Baker  and  his 
wife,  my  cousin  Ellis  and  his  wife,  my  cousin  Lane  and  his  wife,  my  brother 
in  law  Gabriel  Newman,  the  widow  Halsted,  relict  of  Abraham  Halsted. 
Others.  Coke,  150. 

Robert  Davy  of  Credyton  ah  Kyrton,  Devon,  clothier,  30  March  1570, 
proved  S  June  1570.  To  be  buried  in  the  parish  church  of  Crediton  als 
Kyrton.  To  my  two  sons.  Laurence  and  Ellis  Davye  my  lease  &c.  of  the 
Will  Parkes  in  Crediton  &c.  and  to  Ellis  my  lease  of  a  tenement  in  East 
town.  Crediton.  To  four  of  the  daughters  of  Giles  Froste,  named  Sybbly, 
Katherin.e,  Christian  and  Margaret,  forty  shillings  apiece,  to  be  paid  at  their 
several  marriages.  My  son  in  law  Richard  Potter.  My  godson  Robert 
Davie  son  of  Gilbert  Davie.  The  son  of  John  Brodemeade  which  he  had 
by  Ware's  daughter  dwelling  at  Tyverton.  My  godson  Robert  Phillip  son 
of  John  Phillip^  My  god  daughter  Annye  Chease  daughter  of  Robert 
Chease  by  his  first  wife.  P>ery  of  John  Phillippe's  children.  My  ser- 
vants John  and  Alice  Ley.  John  Davve  the  younger,  my  son,  dwelling  in 
Exetor  To  Laurence  Davy  mv  son  my  new  house  and  garden  lying  over 
against  the  "  bastyn  "  gate.  John  Davye  son  of  my  eldest  son  John  Davye. 
Robert  Davye  my  godson,  son  of  John  Davy  my  eldest  son.  Laurence 
Davye  son  of  the  aforesaid  John  Davye.  Richard  Davy  of  Bowe  son  of 
Thomas  Davye  deceased.  John  Ivensall.  Thomas  Davie's  daughter  late 
the  wife  of  one  Kempe  of  North  Bovie.  To  my  eldest  son  John  Davy  my 
lease  &c.  of  the  house  belonging  to  the  Prebend  of  Carswell  which  he  now 
dwelleth  in.     My  executors  to  be  Laurence  and  Ellis  Davie. 

A  codicil  added  17  April.  Bequests  to  three  of  Johan  Averie's  daugh- 
ters, Elizabeth,  Peternell  and  Johan.  The  said  Johan  my  daughter.  Five 
of  my  son  John  Davie's  daughters,  named  Elizabeth,  Christian,  Mary,  Amye 
and  Margaret.  Lyor.  22. 

Jonx  Davie  the  elder  of  Crediton,  Devon,  gen'.,  15  October  1575, 
proved  30  October  157G.  To  be  buried  in  the  church  of  Crediton.  The 
poor  within  the  two  towns  of  Credyton.  To  my  wife  Elizabeth  my  man- 
sion house  in  which  I  now  dwell,  in  the  east  town  of  Crediton,  for  forty 
years  if  she  live  so  long  and  after  her  death  to  my  son  Lawrence  Davie. 
To  my  son  Lawrence  ten  pounds  in  money  and  ten  pounds  more  which  I 
owe  unto  him  of  his  grandfather's  "bequeathe,"  to  be  paid  at  his  full  age  of 
one  and  twenty.  My  daughter  Christian  Davie.  My  daughter  Mary 
Davie.  My  daughter  Agnes  Davie.  My  daughter  Margaret  Davie.  Ref- 
erence to  bequests  made  to  the  children  above  named  by  their  grandfather. 
My  daughter  Wilmott  Davie.  Mv  kinsman  Roger  Davie.  My  son  John 
to  have  the  residue  and  to  be  my  executor:  and  for  overseers  I  do  appoint 
my  brothers  Gilbert  Davie,  Lawrence  Davie  and  John  Davie  of  Exeter. 

Carew,  28. 


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138  e      Genealogical  Gleanings  in  England.  [Jan. 

Gilbert  Davye  of  Credyton,  Devon,  gen*.  5  March  20  Eliz:  proved  8 
November  1585.  To  he  buried  in  the  church  of  Creditor).  To  the  twelve 
governors  &c.  of  the  church  twenty  pounds,  to  be  distributed  aropngst  twenty 
poor  persons.  Robert  Davye  my  ton  and  heir  apparent.  Gilbert.  Law- 
rence, Roger,  John  and  Robert  Trobridge,  my  daughter  Christian's  chil- 
dren. My  son  in  law  George  Trobridge,  their  father.  Christian  his  wife, 
my  daughter.  (Their  daughter?)  Mary  at  eighteen  or  day  of  marriage. 
My  brother  Ellys  Davye.  Isly  brother  Lawrence  Davye.  Anne  Davye, 
my  son's  wife,  and  Gilbert  Davye  her  son.  Robert  Alford  and  Thomasin 
his  wife,  my  sister.  My  brother  Lawrence  Davye's  children  (being  four 
of  them).  To  my  wife  Mary  that  tenement  or  Barton  called  Bishops  Lei^h, 
in  the  parish  of  Bishops  Morchard,  Devon,  to  hold  for  forty  years  (if  she 
so  long  live)  iu  full  satisfaction  and  recompence  of  her  dower  for  all  other 
my  lands  &c.  The  remainder  to  my  sou  Robert.  Other  bequests  to 
Robert.  Reference  to  an  Indenture  from  nephew  John  Davye  of  Crediton, 
gentleman.  Cousin  Roger  Davye.  Thomas,  son  of  Ellys  Davye.  John 
Northcotte  of  Crediton  gen'.  My  brother  John  Davye  of  Exon  gen\  My 
nepnew  John  Davye  of  Credytou  gen1.  Brudeueil,  49. 

John  Cor ham  the  younger  of  Ottery  Sl  Mary.  Devon,  24  June  1585, 
proved  11  March  1586.  The  poor  of  Otery.  To  my  brother  William 
Corharn  my  bow  and  arrows.  My  brother  in  law  David  Axon.  My 
brother  John  Davye  and  my  sister  his  wife.  Raphe  Baston  and  Katherine 
his  wife.  Edward  his  son  and  Christian  their  daughter.  My  si~ter  Charity 
Corharn.  My  sister  Joane  Weare.  Such  child  as  my  wife  shall  be  by 
God's  grace  delivered  of.  My  sister  Agnes  Corharn.  Agnes,  Joane  and 
William  Corharn,  children  of  my  brother  William.  Wife  Alice  to  be  sole 
executrix. 

William  Corharn,  gen',  one  of  the  witnesses.  Spencer,  16. 

Lawrence  Davie  of  Crediton,  Devon,  clothier,  22  December  14a 
Elizabeth,  proved  6  February  1601.  My  body  to  be  buried  in  the  church 
of  Crediton.  To  my  son  Nicholas  Davy  and  my  daughter  Mary  Davie  all 
my  lease,  title  and  interest  in  the  Will  Parks  ground  Sec  the  which  lease 
was  granted  by  Anthony  Harvie  Esq.  To  my  daughter  Mary  Davie  one 
hundred  pounds  at  day  of  marriage.  To  my  brother  Ellis  Davie  twenty 
shillings.  To  the  poor  of  the  two  towns  of  Crediton  forty  shillings. 
Towards  the  separation  of  the  lower  well  in  Kerton  in  the  East  town  twenty 
shillings,  with  the  rive  shillings  that  remained  in  my  hand  before.  If  my 
daughter  Mary  do  happen  to  die  before  she  be  married  the  hundred  pounds 
shall  come  to  my  son  John  Davy  and  her  part  of  the  lease  &c.  shall  come 
to  my  son  Nicholas  Davie.  If  Nicholas  happen  to  die  before  marriage  then 
his  portion  of  said  lease  shall  sjo  to  my  daughter  Mary,  My  brother  John 
Davie  of  the  city  of  Exon  shall  be  my  whole  and  sole  executor  and  ''mais- 
ter  "  John  Trobridge  and  my  cousin  Robert  Davie  overseers. 

Montague,  22. 

Margaret  Davey  of  Exeter  widow,  30  November  12th  James  proved 
20  January  1614.  To  be  buried  in  the  parish  church  of  St.  Mary  Arches, 
Exeter.  The  poor  of  the  citv.  The  poor  of  Sandford  in  the  parish  of 
Kyrton.  The  parish  of  Calverley.  The  poor  of  Loxbeare  and  of  Temple. 
My  grandchild  Johanna  Ilaydon.  Frances  Haydon  daughter  to  my  son  in 
law  Gideon  Ilaydon  and  George  Haydon,  his  son.  My  brother  Ames 
Southcott.     Margaret  Blackaller,  daughter  of  Thomas  BlackaUer  of  the 


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parish  of  St.  Thomas,  Devon.  My  brother  Humphrey  Southcott.  My 
daughter  Margaret  Haydoii.  My  daughter  Julyan  Davey.  My  (laughter 
Mary  Davey.  My  sister  Mary  Blackaller.  My  sister  Wood.  My  daugh- 
ter Davey's  servants.  My  cousin  Richard  Southcott.  My  cousin  Gilbert 
Sweete.  My  brother  Thomas  Southcott.  My  son  John  Davey.  My  sister 
Mary  Ford.  Gideon  Haydon  my  son  in  law  to  be  executor  and  my  son 
Johu  Davey  and  Mr.  Peter  Haydon  to  be  overseers.  Eudd,  1. 

Thomas  Southcott  of  Calverley  in  the  parish  of  Calwoodley,  Devon, 
gen1,  2Q  April  1618,  proved  20  November  1621.  The  poor  of  said  parish. 
The  poor  of  Loxbeare.  The  poor  of  Tiverton.  To  my  daughter  Mary 
Colman  ten  pounds  for  to  buy  a  piece  of  plate  with  as  a  token  of  my  love 
unto  her.  To  my  daughter  Elizabeth  Waltham  (a  like  bequest).  To  my 
son  George  Southcott  (a  like  bequest)  and  to  his  wife.  To  my  wife  Mar- 
gery the  use  of  all  such  goods  as  I  have  at  Newton  Petroocke,  which  I  had 
by  the  intermarriage  with  her,  during  her  natural  life,  and  then  to  my 
executor.  The  residue  to  Richard,  my  son,  whom  I  make  sole  executor; 
and  I  ordain  and  make  my  cousin  Johu  Davie  Esq.  and  my  brother  Humfry 
Southcott  my  overseers. 

John  Davie,  William  Colman  and  Humfry  Southcott  wit: 

Dale,  90. 

Humfry  Southcot  of  Chilton  in  Cheriton  Fitzpaine,  Devon,  gen',  20 
May  1643,  proved  21  May  1617.  To  the  poor  of  Calverly  ten  pounds  to 
be  employed  with  those  legacies  and  sums  of  money  which  were  given  to 
the  said  parish  by  my  brother  Thomas  Southcott  and  my  sister  Margaret 
Davie,  my  cousin  Mary  Colman  and  others,  entreating  my  overseer  and 
executor,  with  my  cousin  Prowse,  now  parson  of  the  said  parish  of  Calver- 
ley, and  his  successors,  being  there  resident  to  set  down  and  order  the  dis- 
posing and  ordering  of  all  as  may  continue  forever.  My  godson  Bernard 
Southcott.  My  brother  Robert  Southcott  if  living  at  my  decease.  Ten 
pounds  per  annum  quarterly  to  be  paid  him  out  of  my  lauds  at  Coddiford 
as  an  addition  to  the  annuity  he  is  to  have  and  now  hath  from  my  cousin 
Nicholas  Foord  during  his  life.  Ellen  Bussell  if  living  <Scc.  Her  husband. 
The  residue  to  my  cousin  and  gouson  Thomas  Southcot,  willing  him  to 
have  the  advice  in  all  his  proceedings,  in  this  my  last  will,  with  my  true 
and  ever  faithful  nephew  Sir  John  Davie,  Baronet,  whom  I  make  my  only 
overseer  of  this  will.  Fines,  209. 

John  Davye  of  Greedy  in  Sandford,  Devon,  Esq.  20  June  15th  Charles 
(1639),  proved  7  August  1655.  To  be  buried  within  the  chapel  of  Sand- 
ford.  The  poor  of  Creditou  and  Sandford.  To  the  twelve  governors  of 
the  goods  and  hereditaments  of  the  church  of  Crediton  twenty  pounds  for 
and  towards  a  workhouse  &c.  Have  disbursed  one  hundred  pounds  towards 
the  purchase  of  lands  to  be  made  over  to  the  twelve  governors  for  the  main- 
tenance of  an  P^nglish  school  master  in  Crediton  &c«  Provision  for  con- 
venient rooms  for  wife  in  mansion  house  at  Crediton,  also  garden  plot  and 
orchard.  To  said  wife  all  such  goods  as  she  brought  with  her  and  such 
moneys  as  she  hath  put  iuto  the  hands  of  others  for  employment  of  the 
same,  viz'  into  the  hands  of  my  brother  Thomas  Hele  one  hundred  pounds, 
in  my  cousin  Gilbert's  hands  twenty  pounds,  in  my  cousin  Hamon's  hands 
two  hundred  pounds,  in  Henry  Knight's  hands  two  hundred  pounds,  in  my 
sister  .Lack's  hands  twenty  pounds,  net  doubting  but  she  will  employ  the 
same  for  the  best  benefit  of  mine  and  her  daughter  Isabel  Davie.     Certaiu 


140  ,      Genealogical  Gleanings  in  England.  [Jan. 

articles  of  silver  to  her.  To  my  son  Hum  fry  five  hundred  pounds.  To 
my  daughter  Margaret  Davie  one  thousand  pounds  for  a  marriage  portiou. 
In  the  mean  time  I  give  her  fifteen  pounds  per  annum  for  her  present,  main- 
tenance. My  son  and  heir  shall  give  them  their  diets  or  twenty  pounds 
apiece  yearly  until  they  be  married.  To  my  daughter  Isabel  one  thousand 
pounds  for  a  marriage  portion,  iu  the  meantime  she  to  be  educated  and 
maintained  by  her  mother.  Forty  shillings  apiece  unto  Sir  John  Younge, 
knight,  John  Willoughby  of  Pehembury  Esq.,  my  beloved  brothers  iu  law, 
and  Humfrey  Southcott  of  Chilton,  gen1,  my  beloved  uncle,  whom  I  make 
overseers  &c,  the  same  forty  shillings  to  be  bestowed  in  a  ring  or  some 
such  other  memorial  as  they  shall  like  best.  The  residue  to  my  son  and 
heir  John  Davie  whom  I  make  sole  executor. 

Wit:  Mary  Willoughby,  John  Willoughby,  Humfrey  Southcott  and  John 
Aynell. 

Proved  by  the  oath  of  Sir  John  Davie,  Baronet,  the  son  and  executor. 

Entered  on  the  margin  "  T.  dfii  Johannis  Davye  mitl3." 

Aylett,  101. 

[The  testator,  Sir  John  Davie,  who  was  created  a  baronet  Sept.  9,  1641,  was 
the  father  of  Humphrey  Davie,  a  merchant  of  London  and  Boston,  whose  son 
John  graduated  at  Harvard  College  in  1681.  The  testator  was  the  only  sou  of 
John  Davie,  thrice  mayor  of  Exeter,  England,  who  married  Margaret,  daughter 
of  George  Southcote  of  Calverly  in  Devon.  Besides  their  son  John,  they  had 
one  daughter  Margaret,  wife  of  Gideon  Haydon. 

Sir  John  Davie,  bart.,  was  twice  married ;  first  to  Julian,  daughter  of  William 
Strode  of  Newnhara,  by  whom  he  had  four  sons  :  1.  Sir  John,  his  successor;  2. 
William,  a  counsellor  at  law,  who  married  Margaret,  daughter  of  Sir  Erancis 
Clark  of  Putney  in  Surrey;  3.  Robert;  4.  Humphrey,  the  "New  England  immi- 
grant. He  had  also  four  daughters  :  1.  Mary,  married  to  John  Willoughby  of 
Payhembury  in  Devon;  3.  Julian;  -i.  Margaret,  married  Thomas  Bear  of  Hun- 
some,  Devon.  Sir  John  married  2d,  Isabel  Hele,  by  whom  he  had  one  daughter, 
Isabel,  who  married  Walter  Yonge  of  Coliiton,  Devon,  created  a  baronet  in 
1681. 

Humphrey  Davie,  son  of  the  testator,  married  1st,  Mary,  daughter  of  Edmund 
White,  an  abstract  of  whose  will  is  given  above.  He  emigrated  in  1062  to 
Boston,  Mass.  He  married  for  a  second  wife  Sarah  Richards,  widow  of  James 
Richards  and  daughter  of  William  Gibbons.  He  was  admitted  a  member  of  the 
Artillery  Company  in  1605.  He  died  at  Hartford,  Ct.,  Feb.  18,  1688-9.  His 
widow  married  Jonathan  Tyng.  See  Reg  stkr,  vol.  i.,  p.  169;  Wotton's  Eng- 
lish Baronetage,  1741,  vol.  i"i.,"pp.  263-9  ;  Baronetage  of  England  by  E.  Kimher 
and  R.  Johnson,  1771,  vol.  i.,  pp.  416-19;  Baronetage  of  England  by  Rev.  Wil- 
liam Betham.  18'0'i,  vol.  i.,  pp.  453-7;  Whitman's  History  of  the  Ancient  and 
Honorable  Artillery  Company,  ed.  1842,  pp.  175-6. — Editou.] 

Dame  Isabell  Davie,  late  the  wife  of  Sir  John  Davie  of  Credie  in  the 
parish  of  Sundford,  Devon,  Baronet  deceased.  Her  will  made  20  July 
1656,  proved  18  November  1657.  I  do  desire  that  there  should  be  no 
mourning  given  at  my  funeral  nor  hearse  set  upon  my  grave.  My  executor 
to  bestow  and  lay  out  twenty  pounds  for  six  and  twenty  rings  with  a  de.tth's 
head  and  this  Eoesie,  to  witt,  •'  God  be  your  guide,"  to  be  given  one  to  each 
of  my  brothers  and  sisters  and  one  apiece  to  each  of  my  sons  in  law  and 
daughters  in  law  living  at  the  time  of  my  death.  To  my  sons  in  law  Wil- 
liam Davie,  Robert  Davie  and  Humphry  Davie,  to  each  of  them  half  a 
dozen  silver  spoons.  To  my  cousins  Richard  Rowe  and  Joane  Ford  and 
my  servant  Elizabeth  Wareman  twenty  shillings  apiece.  The  poor  of 
Sandford  and  of  Creditor..  My  daughter  Isabel  Young  and  her  children. 
The  residue  to  said  daughter  and  she  to  be  sole  executrix. 

Ruthen.  433. 


Sir  Johx  Davy  of  Greedy.  Baronet,  13  April  1685.  proved  9  June  1G93. 
To  be  buried  in  the  parish  church  of  Sandford  near  my  ancestors  and  rela- 
tions. The  manner  of  my  funeral  I  leave  to  my  executor,  my  dear  brother 
William  Davie,  and  I  do  hereby  make  him  whole  executor  of  this  my  last 
will  and  testament,  desiring  him  to  be  dutiful  to  my  honored  mother  aud 
kind  and  respectful  to  all  others  our  relations.  And  I  give  him  all. my 
goods,  chattels  and  personal  estate. 

Proved  by  Sir  William  Davie,  Baronet  &c.  Coker,  94. 

Sik  John  Davie  of  Greedy  in  Devon.  Baronet,  31  January  1677.  proved 
19  October  1678.  To  be  buried  iu  the  vault  or  burying  place  which  I 
made  in  the  chancel  of  the  church  or  chapel  cf  the  parish  or  hamlet  of 
Sandford  at  or  upon  my  father's  death.  The  poor  of  Crediton  and  of  Saud- 
ford  and  the  other  poor  of  Upton  Hellions.  To  Dame  Amy,  my  dear,  lov- 
ing and  faithful  wife,  all  the  jewels,  plate  and  books,  cabinets  aud  trunks 
which  now  are  or  were  hers  at  the  time  of  her  marriage  with  me  (and 
other  property).  My  two  nephews,  John  Davie  and  Nathaniel  his  brother, 
sons  of  my  late  brother  Robert  deceased.  My  nephew  William  Davie, 
second  son  of  my  late  brother  William  Davie  of  Dyra  Esq.  deceased.  The 
study  at  Creedy  Widger  (in  Upton  Hellions)  which  was  my  father  Rey- 
nells.  My  nephew  John  Copplestone.  son  and  heir  of  my  cousin  John 
Copplestoue  of  Bowden  Esq.  My  niece  Mary  Copplestone,  eldest  daughter 
to  my  brother  in  law  Arthur  Copplestone  of  Bowdon  Esq.  My  sister  and 
their  children,  Charles  Quicke,  son  of  John  Quick  junr  of  Newton  S1 
Cyers  (now  St.  Cyres)  Esq.  my  kinsman.  Provision  for  a  workhouse  in 
Crediton  and  for  an  English  schoolmaster  in  Sandford.  Sir  Walter  Yonge 
of  Coleton,  Baronet,  Thomas  Reynell  of  Ogwells,  Richard  Beavis  of  Clist- 
house,  my  nephetv,  and  John  Copplestone  of  Bowdon  Esquire,  my  near  and 
dear  relations.  Richard  Beavis  of  Clisthouse,  Devon,  Esq.  my  well  beloved 
brother  in  law.  Reeve,  109. 

Sir  William  Davie  of  Creedy,  Devon,  Baronet,  10  February  1706, 
proved  27  May  1707.  To  Dame  Abigail  Davie,  my  dear  wife,  all  the 
jewels,  plate,  rings  and  cabinets  which  were  hers  at  the  time  of  my  marriage 
with  her  or  have  been  given  uuto  her  at  any  time  since  (and  other  pro- 
perty). My  father  John  Pollixfen  Esq.  and  my  brother  John  Pollixfen 
Esq.  My  daughters  Margaret,  Frances  and  Trephina  Davie.  My  brother 
Wollcombe  Pollixfen.  My  daughter  Mary  Davie.  My  copyhold  estates 
in  Stratton,  Somerset,  &c.  Poley,  104. 

Sir  Johx  Davie  late  of  Creedy,  Devon,  Baronet,  25  April  1727,  proved 
13  July  1728.  To  my  son  and  heir  John  Davie  all  those  several  pictures, 
with  the  frames  thereto  belonging,  that  is  to  say,  the  picture  of  my  uncle 
Sir  John  Davie,  of  my  father  and  mother,  of  myself  and  my  late  Lady,  his 
brother  James  and  his  owu,  and  my  will  and  desire  is  that  the  same  shall 
be  and  remain  to  the  heirs  male  of  my  family  successively.  Provision  for 
son  Humphrey  Davie.  To  my  son  William  Davie  my  messuage  &c.  in 
Holsworthy.  Devon.  A  settlement  of  lands  in  Crediton  for  daughter  Mary 
Bishop.  My  son  John  Davie  Esq.  and  my  son  in  law  Christopher  Savery. 
My  daughter  Mary's  four  daughters,  Elizabeth,  Jenny,  Mary  and  Sarah 
Bishop.  My  second  daughter  Sarah  Savery  has  already  received  her  por- 
tion. To  my  third  daughter  Elizabeth  Davie  two  thousand  five  hundred 
pounds,  to  be  paid  her  on  the  day  of  her  marriage. 
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Item,  I  further  give,  devise  and  bequeath  unto  my  two  sons  Humphry 
Davie  and  William  Davie  and  to  their  heirs  for  ever  all  those  my  lands  at 
or  in  New  England,  lying  and  being  near  Boston,  Groton,  Milton,  Rumley 
als  Rumney  Marsh.  Kennebeck  River,  Swan  Island  or  elsewhere,  or  any 
of  them  in  New  England  in  America  or  in  any  other  town,  province.  Is- 
land, district  or  place  in  New  England  aforesaid,  late  or  heretofore  the 
estate  of  Edmund  While  of  London,  merchant  deceased,  or  which  was  for- 
merly purchased  by  or  in  the  name  of  Humphry  Davie  late  of  Boston,  mer- 
chant deceased,  for  the  use  of  or  in  trust  for  the  said  Edmund  White.  The 
poor  of  Saudford  parish,  My  sons  Humphry  and  William  Davie  to  be 
executors.  Brook,  205. 

[Sir  John  Davie,  bart.,  the  testator,  was  the  son  of  Humphrey  Davie  referred 
to  above  in  the  preceeding  note  on  the  will  of  Sir  John  Davie,  the  first 
baronet.  He  was  a  graduate  of  Harvard  College  in  1681,  and  a  memoir  of  him 
will  be  found  in  the-  third  volume  of  Sibley's  Harvard  Graduates.  Fie  married 
about  16'J2  bis  step-si>t^r,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  James  and  Sarab  Richards  of 
Hartford,  Ct.  He  had  the  following  children,  ail  born  in  the  town  of  Groton 
(originally  a  part  of  New  London),  Ct.,  namely:  1.  Mary,  born  June  30.  1603, 
married  Rev.  Thomas  Bishop  of  Barnstaple,  Eug. ;  2.  Sarah,  born  October 
21,  1695,  married  Christopher  Savery  of  Shilson,  near  Modbury,  Devon;  3. 
Elizabeth.,  born  March  17,  1697-8.,  married  Ebeuezer  Mussell  of  London;  1. 
John,  born  July  27,  1700,  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  John  Acland  of  Collitom 
Devon,  and  succeeded  to  the  baronetcy  in  172S,  on  the  death  of  his  father:  5. 
Humphrey,  born  April  12,  1702,  a  bachelor;  'J.  William,  born  March  21,  170.3-6, 
married  Ellen,  daughter  of  Nicholas  Jackson  of  Bristol,  merchant.  Sir  John, 
the  testator,  about  1707.  on  the  death  of  his  cousin  William  the  fourth  baronet, 
succeeded  to  the  baronetcy.  He  died  in  1728.  See  Sibley's  Harvard  Graduates, 
vol.  iii.,  pp.  231-6;  Caulkius's  New  London,  pp.  41.V7;  Savage's  Genealogical 
Dictionary,  vol.  ii.,  pp.  14-13;  and  the  other  authorities  cited  in  the  preceding 
note.— Eouor.] 

William  Tutty  of  St.  Stephens  Coleman  Street,  London,  gen*,  10 
October  1640,  proved  9  January  1640.  To  my  beloved  wife  Anne  Tutty 
all  my  plate  and  household  stuff  and  my  seal  ring;  only  I  desire  her  that 
my  children  may  enjoy  the  plate  that  was  given  them  at  their  baptizing, 
every  one  their  own.  Whereas  my  son  William  Tutty  hath  already  had  a 
liberal  and  competent  part  of  my  estate  in  his  maintenance  in  the  LTuiversity 
of  Cambridge  and  in  a  parcel  of  books,  bought  by  me  of  Nathaniel  Mickle- 
thwayte,  my  wife's  son,  executor  of  Paul  Micklethwaite  late  Doctor  of  Di- 
vinity deceased,  and  given  to  him,  amounting  to  the  sum  of  about  forey 
pounds,  I  therefore  give  uuto  him  only  the  sum  of  ten  pounds  &c. 

Item,  because  I  have  already  given  unto  my  eldest  daughter  Anne,  lately 
married  with  Alexander  Knight  of  Ipswich  in  New  England  beyond  the 
seas,  a  competent  marriage  portion,  I  therefore  give  unto  her,  in  full  of  her 
child's  portion,  the  sum  of  ten  pounds  more  to  be  paid  her  also  by  mine 
execQtrix  within  one  year  next  after  my  decease.  The  residue  of  my  estate 
to  be  divided  into  two  equal  parts,  the  one  part  whereof  I  give  unto  my 
wife  Anne  Tutty  and  the  other  half  part  to  be  divided  equally  amongst  the 
rest  of  my  children  now  living,  viz'  John,  Joseph,  Benjamin.  Samuel,  Eliza- 
beth, Dorcas  and  Hester  Tutty.  My  said  wife  to  be  full  and  sole  executrix. 
Commissary  of  London,  Vol.  28  (1639-42),  fol.  234. 

[Alexander  Knight,  named  in  this  will,  resided  at  Ipswich,  Mass.,  as  early  as 
1635.  He  is  said  by  P.  Vincent  in  his  History  of  the  Pequot  War,  published  in 
1637,  to  have  kept  an  inn  at  Chelmsford,  Eng.  (Coll.  Mass.  Hist.  Society,  vol. 
xxvi.,  p.  41.)     The  date  of  his  marriage  with  Hannah  or  Anne,  daughter  of 


1894.]  Genealogical  Ghanivgs  in England.  143 

William  Tuttv,  I  Lave  not  found, though  her  father  speaks  of  her  as  "lately 
married"  in  ic^O.— Editor.] 

JOHN  Tuttif,  citizen  and  fruiterer  of  London  (son  of  William  Tuttie 
late  of  London,  gentleman,  deceased)  3  September  1657,  proved  3  October 
1057  (with  a  codicil  dated  5  September).  To  my  sister  Hannah  knight 
of  New  England  for  her  children,  or  such  of  them  living,  or  in  case  they 
be  all  deceased  then  for  her  own  use  if  living  at  the  time.  I  shall  herein 
appoint  for  the  payment  of  this  and  other  legacies  fifty  pounds.  lo  my 
brother  William  f  uttie  of  Tottende  (s/c-Totteridge?)  fifty  pounds,  lo 
mv  sister  Dorcas  Tuttie  one  hundred  pounds.  To  my  sister  Hester  Blissett 
Sixty  pounds.  To  my  sister  Elizabeth  Ten-  forty  pounds.  To  her  son 
Nicholas  Tew  ten  pounds.  To  my  brother  Samuel  all  that  he  owes  me 
upon  any  account  whatever,  whether  in  frames  or  money,  lo  each  of  his 
four  children  ten  pounds  to  bind  them  forth  to  learn  trades.  To  my  brother 
MicklethwaMu  twenty  pounds  to  buy  him  two  pieces  of  plate,  lo  my 
uncle  John  fcing  forty  shillings.  To  Richard  Davies,  shoemaker,  five  pounds. 
To  Mary  Prosser,  widow,  ten  pounds.  To  Anthony  Haiie,  trimmer,  ten 
pounds.  To  Thomas  Higo-eson  ten  pounds.  One  hundred  pounds  among 
the  poor.     My  wife  Rachel  to  be  sole  executrix.  Ruthen,  3/2. 

William  Dtre  of  the  Co.  of  Sussex  in  the  territories  of  the  Province 
of  Pennsylvania  Esq.  I  will  and  bequeath  unto  my  eldest  son  William 
Dyre,  now  at  Boston  in  New  England,  all  my  plantation  or  land  in  the 
Broad  Kill,  in  Sussex  County  aforesaid,  called  Rurnbley  Place,  containing 
two  thousand  acres,  more  or  less,  with  ten  cows,  four  two  year  old  heifers, 
six  two  year  old  stears  coming  to  this  Spring.  To  my  second  sou  Edmund 
Dyre  one  plantation  lying  upon  Loves  Creek  in  the  said  County,  contaiu- 
iucr  six  hundred  acres' formerly  called  Sundialls  (but  now  Beavorwick)  and 
four  hundred  acres  formerly  in  partnership  with  Stephen  Whittman,  now 
bounding  upon  the  lands  of  Jeremiah  Scott  and  Thomas  Branscomb  and  to 
the  Southward  partly  on  John  and  William  Roads  and  to  the  Eastward 
upon  the  marshes  or  Town  Creek,  with  six  cows  and  their  increase  and 
two  two  year  old  steers.  To  my  youngest  son  James  Dyre  four  hundred 
acres  of  land  on  Mispillen  Creek  in  the  County  aforesaid  and  also  three- 
hundred  acres  in  the  fork  of  the  Broad  Kill,  in  the  County  aforesaid  part 
binding  upon  the  Beaver  Dam  and  Westward  upon  Prime  Hook  Creek, 
with  one  hundred  acres  of  marsh  adjoining,  also  two  hundred  acres  m  New 
Castle  County,  about  seven  miles  from  the  town,  butted  ana  bounded  as 
per  "  Pattent,"  with  six  cows.  To  my  eldest  daughter  Sarah  Dyre  five 
hundred  acres  between  Cold  Spring  and  the  Cypress  Bridge  in  Sussex 
County,  butted  and  bounded  as  bv  the  Certificate  and  Plat  or  Draught  tor 
the  same  may  appear,  with  six  cows.  To  my  youngest  daughter  Mary 
Dyre  three  hundred  acres  known  bv  the  name  of  the  White  Horse,  lately 
bought  of  Charles  Pickering,  and  two  hundred  and  fifty  five  acres  in  Angola- 
Neck,  in  the  County  of  Sussex,  some  time  the  land  of  Richard  Shoulster, 
with  six  cows.  I  give  unto  my  dear  and  well  beloved  wife  Mary  Dyre 
twenty  five  hundred  acres  in  Cedar  Neck  in  Sussex  County,  as  by  brant 
and  survey  for  settlement  of  part  for  the  whole,  as  also  ninety  six  acres 
adioinin-  the  town  of  Lewis  (Lewes)  in  Sussex  County,  with  two  town 
lots  in  the  same  town,  the  same  being  begun  to  be  built  upon  and  improved 
(and  other  personal  estate),  this  for  her  natural  life  and  afterwards  to  my 
said  children,  or  other  ways  as  she  shall  think  fit  and  necessary.  I  give 
her  also  one  debt  due  by  bond  from  Hendrick  Vandenborgh  of  Newcastle 


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for  forty  odd  pounds  silver  money  and  a  debt  for  six  pounds,  in  monev  or 
corn,  due  from  justice  Andreson  of  Newcastle  and  five  pounds,  in  wheat  or 
pork,  due  from  Samuel  Curtis  of  Allawayes  Creek  in  West  Jersev,  and  a 
debt,  by  account  or  bill  of  Capt.  William  Markbam  fur  near  about  twenty 
pounds,  and  a  debt  of  seventy  odd  pounds  silver  money  due  from  William 
Alsberry,  due  by  mortgage,  and  now  in  the  hands  of  Capt.  Stephanus  Van 
Courtland  of  New  York,  with  all  other  debts  due  to  me  from  any  other 
persons  whatsoever  within  the  said  Government  of  New  York. 

I  give  to  my  wife  all  my  land  and  horses  iu  the  Pequit  in  Narra^anset 
Country  in  New  England,  with  all  my  right  and  title  of  inheritance  to  the 
estate  of  my  late  father  William  Dyre  deceased  upon  Rhode  Island,  within 
the  Province  of  Providence  Plantation,  and  also  one  island  called  Dyers 
Island,  lying  bet  veen  Prudence  and  Rhode  Island,  and  the  balance  of  Mr. 
Thomas  Lloyds  bond  for  rive  hundred  and  ten  pounds  silver  money  pavable 
at  New  York  the  twenty  sixth  of  May  next  ensuing,  beitis  above  one  hun- 
dred pounds,  and  twenty  acres  of  land  lying  at  Reading  in  New  England  and 
two  islands  called  Clabbord  Islands  in  Cascoe  Bay  in  New  England,  the  same 
being  all  for  her  proper  use  and  behoof  during  her  natural  life  and  after- 
ward? to  be  divided  amongst  my  said  children  as  she  shall  think  fit.  My 
said  dear  and  loving  wife  Mary  Dyre  and  my  said  eldest  son  William  Dyre 
to  be  my  whole  and  sole  executrix  and  executor  for  the  managing  my  said 
estate;  further  it  is  my  will  and  desire  that  my  said  wife  have  one  hundred 
and  fifty  pounds  silver  money  of  New  England,  in  the  hands  of  Sir  Ed- 
mund Andros.  I  have  hereunto  set  my  hand  and  seal  this  twentieth  day 
•of  Eebruary  1687-8,  and  I  request  my  friends  Mr.  John  Hill  and  Mr. 
Samuel  Gray  to  be  assisting  to  my  wife  and  children  in  the  management  of 
their  affairs  in  these  parts.  Also  I  humbly  request  his  Excellency  Sir  Ed- 
mund Andros,  Governor  General  of  New  England,  to  be  assistant  to  my 
said  wife  and  children  in  their  affairs  in  the  parts  of  New  England,  the  said 
Sir  Edmund  to  be  feoffee  in  trust  to  my  said  estate  in  the  part3  of  New 
England. 

In  the  presence  of  us,  Charles  Sanders  and  William  Rodeney. 

The  Evidences,  viz'  Charles  Sanders  and  William  Rodeney  attested  in 
•open  Court,  held  for  the  County  of  Sussex  the  fifth  day  of  the  fourth  month, 
called  June,  one  thousand  six  hundred  eighty  eight,  that  this  above  writter, 
together  with  the  other  sheet  of  paper  hereunto  annexed,  is  the  Act  and 
Deed  of  Major  William  Dyre  deceased  and  that  the  said  Major  William 
Dyre  did  acknowledge  the  same  to  be  his  last  will  and  testament.  Testis 
^Norton  Claypoole,  Clerk  and  Deputy  Register. 

Registered  in  the  Public  Registry  of  the  Co.  of  Sussex  in  Book  A,  folio 
95,  96  and  97. 

Proved  at  London  4  September  1690  by  the  oath  of  William  Dyre  the 
son  &c,  power  reserved  for  Mary  Dyre  the  relict  when  she  should  come  to 
ask  for  probate.  Dyke,  136. 

[William  Dyre,  the  testator,  was  a  son  of  Mary  Dyer,  the  victim  of  the  per- 
secution of  the  Quakers,  who  was  hanged  on  Boston  Common.  June  1,  1660.  He, 
himself,  petitioned  the  General  Court  of  Massachusetts  for  clemency  to  his 
mother.  His  father,  William  Dyre  or  Dyer,  a  milliner  from  London,  settled 
in  Boston  in  1635,  was  admitted  freeman  of  Massachusetts  March  3,  163o-C,  was 
disarmed  in  1637,  and  in  1633  removed  to  Rhode  Island.  See  Austin's  Genea- 
logical Dictionary  of  Rhode  Island,  pp.  290-2;  Record  of  the  Dyer  Family,  by 
Cornelia  C.  Joy-Dyer;  Savage's  Genealogical  Dictionary,  vol.  2,  p.  89  ;  Chand- 
ler's Criminal  Trials,  vol.  1,  pp.  31-C3;  and  the  general  histories.— Emtok.] 


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MEMOIR  OF  DAVID   CLAPP. 

Communicated  by  William  Blake  Trask,  A.M.,  of  Dorchester,  Mass. 

Nicholas  Clapp,  the  first  ancestor  of  David  in  this  country, 
and  the  son  of  Richard,  was  from  Dorchester,  Dorset,  England. 
On  the  23d  of  August,  1G30,  he  signed  the  Church  Covenant  of 
our  New  England  Dorchester,  drawn  up  by  Rev.  Richard  Mather 
and  others. 

The  Clapp  family  settled,  originally,  in  Saleombe  Regis,  county 
of  Devon,  where  Roger,  cousin  to  Nicholas,  was  horn.  This  place 
is  situated  about  twelve  miles  from  the  city  of  Exeter,  and  a  little 
to  the  eastward  of  Sidmouth. 

David  was  ot  the  sixth  generation  in  descent  from  Nicholas,1 
through  Nathaniel,2  Jonathan.3  David4  and  David.5  Fae-simile 
autographs  of  Ids  first,  second  and  fourth  ancestors,  in  this  country, 
are  here  given. 

It  is  understood  that  Nicholas  Clapp  ^.  #  /?  (\  ,<atL.*f& 
settled  on  land  in  Dorchester  between  <^\C^t?^aA  (s^nffa 
what  is  now  Upham's  Corner  and      .-«. 

Cottage  street,  the  present  Bos-  f     )  /*P  , 

ton  street  being  on  the  east ;  where      ///  //        .  c  /       jQ  / 
three  generations    of   the    family  Qr/affiaMwZ      (/+■£*> 
were  born.    In  the  year  1754, 

David,  of  the  fourth  genera-  /T^V  •      /        /y */2 

tion,  moved  his  residence  to  ^/J  O^t^UCA/  (  \sC°fO 
the     north-easterly    side     of  \£)        <* 

Jones's  hill,  in  Dorchester,  what  is  now  Stoughton  street  bounding 
it  on  the  north.  For  this  tract  of  land  of  twelve  and  a  half  acres 
he  paid  £146.  13.  4.  Said  land  was  conveyed  to  him  the  12th 
of  May,  1755,  by  Thomas  Kilton  and  wife  Sarah,  of  Dorchester. 
On  the  6th  of  February,  1800,  in  the  house  built  by  his  father 
David5  in  1794,  on  the  portion  of  land  inherited  by  him,  David, 6 
second  son  and  third  child  of  the  said  David5  and  Azubah  (Capen) 
Clapp,  was  born. 

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146  __  David  Clapp.  [April, 

David.5  father  of  the  subject  of  this  memoir,  in  the  eighteenth 
year  of  his  age,  was  engaged  with  his  father,  David,4  in  throwing 
up  the  fortifications  on  Dorchester  Heights,  in  March,  177G.  He 
was,  also,  a  substitute  for  his  father,  who  was  drafted  in  the  Dor- 
chester company  the  next  year,  and  as  a  member  of  that  company 
wTiS  stationed  at  Cambridge  to  guard  General  Burgoyne's  army, 
then  prisoners  of  war.  They  continued  there  five  months.  Soon 
after  his  return  home  from  Cambridge  he  was  drafted  as  one  of  nine 
privates,  who  with  a  sergeant  and  corporal  were  sent  to  Noddle's 
Island  (East  Boston)  to  guard  the  fort  at  that  place.  "At  the 
time  I  was  at  the  Island,"  he  says,  in  his  diary,  "  there  were  only 
ttwo  dwelling  houses  and  two  families,  the  inhabitants,  I  think,  no 
more  than  twelve."'  "At  several  times  in  the  years  1779,  '80  and 
'81  I  enlisted,"  he  writes,  "  as  a  soldier  and  served  under  Captain 
Champney  and  Captain  Clapp  twenty-two  months  at  Dorchester 
Heights."  See  "Clapp  Memorial,"  pages  223,  247  ;  Hist.  Dorches- 
ter, page  348.  The  above  David5  died  May  15,  1846,  in  his  87th 
year.  About  three  acres  of  land  left  by  him  on  "  Jones's  Hill " 
came  into  possession  of  his  son  David"  who  retained  it  intact  until 
the  year  1889,  when  the  upper  portion  of  the  estate  was  sold  in 
house  lots.  "A  street  through  the  centre  from  Gushing  avenue  is 
laid  out,  to  which  it  is  proposed  to  give  the  name  of  Salcombe  street, 
thereby  .associating  this  estate,  which  has  been  occupied  by  four 
generations  of  Clapps,  with  the  old  family  estate  in  England." 

A  fac-simile  of  the  autograph      ,  ».  -,  . 

of  David,5  born  in  1759,  is  here  ^^y^^/JJ^f     \3%£t/&f~b 
given.  cpj-*—  /    f 

At  the  present  time  little  can  be  gathered  in  relation  to  the  early 
life  of  Mr.  Clapp.  Presumably,  with  other  boys,  his  companions 
and  school-fellows,  he  coasted  down  Jones's  hill,  skated  on  Royal's 
pond,  and  attended  the  dame  school  of  his  native  district,  as  was 
almost  universally  the  case,  the  teacher  receiving  the  customary  fee 
from  each  pupil  of  nine  pence  (twelve  and  a  half  cents)  a  week. 
Like  other  lads  he  doubtless  was  familiar  with  the  tall  trees,  shrubs, 
fruits  and  flowers  of  his  neighborhood  ;  on  Sundays  with  his  parents 
he  probably  sat,  forenoon  and  afternoon,  under  the  preaching  of 
Rev.  Thaddeus  Mason  Harris,  whom,  later  in  life,  he  designates  as 
"one  of  the  most  faithful  and  affectionate  of  pastors  and  best  of 
men,"  "a  man  of  overflowing  sympathies,"  who  "had  a  kindness 
and  tender-heartedness  towards  all."  The  family  afterwards  be- 
came connected  with  the  Second  Church,  of  which  Rev.  Dr. 
John  Codman  was  pastor. 

From  the  "  woman's  "  school  to  the  "  master's  "  would  be  the  next 
step  in  his  educational  progress,  the  "  brick  school  house  "  being  a 
short  distance  only  from  his  home.  The  following,  to  the  point,  is 
the  substance  of  an  interview  held  a  i^ew  months  since  by  a  member 
of  the  family,  wTith  an  aged  female  acquaintance  and  school-com- 
panion of  our  friend : 


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1894.]  r  David  Clajip.  147 

In  calling  upon  a  school-mate  of  uiy  father's,  after  his  death,  the  first 
thing  she  said  about  him  was,  "  He  was  a  good  boy;  he  was  never  known 
to  do  anything  wrong."  She  described  him,  as  all  his  later  friends  have  known 
him,  as  being  conscientious  and  studious,  as  well  as  a  lovable  character. 
In  his  studies  she  referred  to  his  excellence  in  spelling,  in  which  he  took  a 
prize  when  oaiite  a  small  lad. 

The  school  they  attended  was  on  what  is  now  Boston  street,  near  Deacon 
Ciapp's  tannery,  and  opposite  the  old  burying-ground.  It  was  a  small 
one-story  building,  and  in  the  one  school-room  were  gathered  together  both 
boys  and  girls.  The  room  in  the  winter  was  heated  by  a  large,  open  fire- 
place, and,  although  the  wood  was  piled  on  generously,  the  cold  often  pene- 
trated the  open  cracks  in  the  floor,  much  to  the  discomfort  of  those  troubled 
by  cold  feet.  It  was  not  a  luxurious  room,  nor  was  the  life  of  those  who 
daily  gathered  there  one  of  ease  and  luxury.  Those  were  plain  and  simple 
homes  from  which  they  went  forth,  and  the  school-life  was  of  the  same 
character.  They  studied  the  common  branches,  plain,  elementary,  but 
solid;  thorough  as  far  as  they  went.  There  was  a  religious  element  in  the 
instruction  given  ;  hymns  were  taught,  and  the  Assembly's  Catechism.  Two 
instructors  were  well  remembered  by  the  names  of  Bennett  and  Gould. 

Holidays  were  few  in  those  days  of  Dorchester  schools,  and  excursions 
for  pleasure  by  the  studeuts  were  unkuown.  Two  weeks  a  year  would 
nearly  cover  all  the  vacations  enjoyed. 

This  school-mate  of  Mr.  Ciapp's  referred  to  above,  although  in  her  uinety- 
first  year,  has  recalled  clearly  to  her  memory  those  early  days,  and  described 
them  thus  to  us  with  warm  praises  of  him  with  whom  they  are  connected. 
Of  the  above  students  she  remembers  the  names  of  Nazro,  Downer,  Mose- 
ley  and  Humphreys. 

John  Everett,  a  younger  brother  of  Echvard  Everett,  though 
several  years  older  than  Mr.  Clapp,  was  for  a  short  time,  as  he 
relates,  a  school-mate  in  the  old  brick  school-house.  This  John,  a 
"bud  of  promise  early  blighted,"  died  suddenly,  Feb.  12,  1826, 
aged  twenty-five  years.  He  delivered  an  oration  before  the  Wash, 
ington  Society  in  Boston,  and  an  ode  before  the  same  society,  ot 
which  he  was  a  member,  July  4,  1824.  See  Loring's  Hundred 
Boston  Orators,  page  407 .  Another  school-mate,  was  Foster  Thayer, 
afterwards  a  Congregational  minister.  Still  another,  James  Bailey, 
has  been  discovered.  On  the  21st  of  April,  1820,  David  received 
from  his  teacher,  Warren  Goddard,  a  reward  of  merit,  "for  his 
persevering  ddigence,  rapid  improvement  in  the  various  branches  to 
which  he  has  directed  his  attention,  and  truly  unblemished  deport- 
ment." 

Our  friend  did  not  enjoy  the  privilege  of  going  to  school  the  year 
round.  On  the  15th  of  April,  1819,  when  thirteen  years  old, 
according  to  his  journal  he  went  to  work  in  the  tannery  of  Deacon 
James  Humphreys,  where  he  had  for  wages  seven  dollars  a  month. 

On  the  24th  of  May,  1820,  in  the  fifteenth  year  of  his  age,  he 
engaged  to  serve  Mr.  James  "White  for  five  dollars  a  month,  which 
was  a  reduction  in  price,  but  the  labor  probably  was  less.  Mr. 
"White  had  his  summer  residence  in  what   is  now  the  Holbrook 


148  „  David  Clapp.  [April, 

house,  Crescent  avenue,  Dorchester.  Many  years  before  that,  he 
carried  on  the  hook-store  in  Court  street,  Boston,  -which  bore  the 
sign  of  Franklin's  Head. 

The  juvenile  diary  of  young  David,  now  extant,  commenced  this 
day,  May  24th.  Though  not  intended  for  the  public  eye,  it  is 
entertaining  and  instructive  to  the  general  reader :  the  spelling, 
punctuation  and  composition  remarkable  ;  much  of  it  suitable  to  be 
put  in  print  without  alteration  or  correction. 

June  17th,  the  anniversary  of  the  battle  of  Bunker  Hill,  "Mister 
"White  gave  me,"  he  says,  "  this  writing  book,"  in  which  the  fact  is 
entered,  "one  quire  of  paper,  and  half  a  dozen  pens,"  the  old- 
fashioned  goose  quills,  which,  occasionally  required  mending,  for 
this  was  long  before  the  introduction  of  metallic  pens. 

He  left  Mr.  White  November  1st,  and  renewed  his  schooling 
December  7th,  now  under  the  tuition  of  "Master  Pierce,"  the  next 
May  returning  to  Mr.  White's,  where  ho  remained  until  the  5th  of 
November;  but  to  school  again,  December  26th,  the  day  after 
Christmas. 

At  length  his  seat  in  the  old  brick  school-house  became  vacant, 
the  studious  tenant  and  left  to  learn  a  trade,  as  was  the  custom 
among  boys  of  those  days  after  finishing  their  studies  at  school.  On 
the  thirteenth  of  May,  1822,  at  the  usual  age  of  sixteen,  he  commenced 
his  apprenticeship  at  the  printing  business,  with  Mr.  John  Cotton, 
Junior,  of  Boston,  who  had  served  his  time  with  Munroe  &  Francis  ; 
David  boarded  with  Mr.  Erastus  Bartholomew,  blacksmith  and 
engine-builder,  in  Water  street.  (See  ''Bartholomew  Family," 
173-175  for  sketch  and  portrait.)  Mr.  Cotton's  building  was  then 
known  as  in  Marlborough  street,  Number  47  ;  a  few  years  later  it 
became  184  Washington  street. 

Mr.  Clapp,  writing  in  his  diary  of  September  6,  1822,  thus 
remarks:  "We  have  left  off  printing  the  Christian  Register." 
This  was  volume  second,  number  four  of  the  Register,  edited  by 
David  Reed.  Robert  M.  Peek,  No.  4  Spear's  Buildings,  Congress 
street,  then  commenced  printing  the  Register.  He  was  succeeded, 
June  13,  1823,  by  John  B.  Russell,  of  the  same  place.  On  the 
29th  of  May,  1823,  he  writes  :  "  R.  M.  Peck  has  begun  to  print 
the  Boston  Medical  Intelligencer,  at  our  office."  "  We  shall  in 
future  print  books,  I  expect.  We  have  now  begun  one  entitled 
'  Parental  Monitor.' "  "  Nov.  3.  Finished  the  f  Parental  Monitor,' 
the  '  Orphan,'  and  the  '  Revenge,'  and  begun  the r  Uncle  and  Nephew.' " 
Nov.  24,  1822,  he  states  that  "Mr.  Cotton  has  dismissed  his  other 
apprentice,  and  I  am  now  left  alone,  with  neither  master,  journey- 
man, nor  apprentice  to  work  with."  A  little  later  he  writes  :  "I 
still  continue  to  work  alone,  with  nobody  but  the  mice,  who  scamper 
around  the  silent  office  as  if  they  thought  it  had  been  deserted  on 
purpose  to  oblige  them."  He  was  at  that  time  in  the  seventeenth 
year  of  his  age. 


1894.]  .  David  Clapp.  149 

He  continued  working  on  the  Intelligencer,  for  Messrs.  Peck 
and  Cotton.  There  were  about  260  subscribers  to  this  periodical, 
which  was  edited  by  Dr.  Jerome  V.  C.  Smith,  afterwards  mayor 
of  Boston,  assisted  by  Dr.  George  Parkman.  He  relates  some 
pleasant  reminiscences  of  Dr.  Parkman  "  whose  name  is  so  tragically 
connected  with  that  of  Professor  "Webster."'  "It  fell  to  my  lot  for 
a  year  or  two  during  my  apprenticeship  to  become  well  acquainted 
with  Dr.  P.,"  while  assisting  Dr.  Smith  in  editing  the  first  two  or 
three  volumes  of  the  Medical  Intelligencer.  Dr.  Parkman  gave 
Mr.  Clapp  instruction  in  the  French  language,  eveuings,  at  his 
house  in  Cambridge  stiect. 

June  17,  1823.  Mr.  John  Cotton  has  bought  the  Medical  Intelligencer 
of  Mr.  Peck.     I  expect  to  print  it  alone,  for  the  present. 

July  20.  Mr.  Crocker  has  begun  to  print  a  new  publication  at  our  office, 
entitled  Evangelical  Repertory. 

Feb.  10,  1824,  at  18  years  of  age,  he  writes  : — 

I  have  hud   the  kine  pox  at  last,  after  being  inoculated,  once  by  Dr. 

Parkman,  three  times  by  Dr.  Smith,  and  once  by  myself,  the  last  of  which 

took. 

Importance  is  attached  to  this  subject,  as,  according  to  his  account, 
the  small  pox  then  prevailed  in  the  vicinity  of  Boston,  and  he,  by 
vaccination,  may  have  been  instrumental  in  warding  off  the  disease 
from  himself. 

Mr.  Cotton  made  an  arrangement  with  Francis  Y.  Carlisle  to  work 
in  the  printing-office,  Mr:  Cotton  to  find  type,  paper,  etc.,  and  Mr. 
Carlisle  to  have  half  the  profits  ;  Mx.  Clapp,  who  was  then  engaged 
alone  on  the  Medical  Intelligencer,  to  exchange  work  with 
Mr.  Carlisle.  Soon,  however,  the  latter  having  an  opportunity 
of  becoming  foreman  of  the  Christian  Register  office,  left  Mr.  Cot- 
ton for  the  above  purpose,  which  Mr.  Clapp  regretted,  for  he  was 
thus  left  again  entirely  alone.  Messrs.  Carlisle,  Crocker  and 
Oliver,  before  leaving  Mr.  Cotton,  were  engaged  in  printing  a  small 
book  for  Mr.  John  Barnard,  of  about  one  hundred  pages,  18mo,  enti- 
tled "  The  Sparrow,"  which  was  finished  about  the  middle  of  Decem- 
ber following,  Mr.  Clapp  assisting  in  the  work. 

Mr.  Cotton  ha.3  purchased  the  Atheneum  or  Spirit  of  the  English  Mag- 
azines, of  Munroe  &  Francis,  and  intends  for  the  future  to  publish  it  in  his 
office.  We  commenced  the  first  number  of  this  volume  last  month.  Samuel 
Clap  Jr.,  my  cousin,  came  as  an  apprentice  to  Mr.  Cotton  about  the  begin- 
ning of  March,  so  that  my  long  career  of  printer's  deviltry  has  at  leugth 
terminated,  but  as  John  Cotton  Jr.  will  be  the  foreman  of  the  office  I  shall 
be  less  my  own  master  than  I  have  been  during  most  of  the  time  for  two 
years  past. 

It  appears  that  John  Cotton  senior  was  not  a  practical  printer, 
but  carried  on  the  ship  and  house  painting  business  in  Batterymarch 
street,  and  was  also  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  painted  car- 
pets, so  that  the  affairs  of  the  printing-office  were  delegated  to  the 

VOL.  XLVIII.  14* 


150  _  David  Clapp.  [April, 

junior  member,  but  the  care  and  labor  fell  upon  his  industrious 
and  faithful  journeyman,  Mr.  Clapp. 

In  the  words  of  another  : — 

He  early  assumed  pressing  and  important  responsibilities  iu  the  printing- 
office  whieh  he  had  entered  as  an  apprentice  at  the  age  of  sixteen  years. 
Owing  to  a  peculiar  combination  of  circumstances,  in  less  than  two  years 
after  he  commenced  his  apprenticeship  he  found  himself  in  such  a  position 
that  the  chief  responsibility  of  the  office  devolved  upon  him;  and  such  was 
hi?  strict  attention  to  business,  his  unswerving  integrity,  his  ambition  to 
excel  in  his  profession,  united  with  his  faithfulness  to  his  nominal  employer, 
and  the  rare  tact  which  lie  even  then  showed  in  harmonizing  the  disagree- 
ments of  differing  parties,  that  he  was  found  to  be  equal  to  the  demands  of 
this  difficult  and  responsible  position.  It  is  exceedingly  interesting  to  gather 
from  the  journal  facts  showing  how  steadily  and  surely,  in  the  course  of 
two  years  or  less,  he  worked  his  way  upwards  in  spite  of  his  native  diffi- 
dence and  his  ignorance  of  men  and  of  business,  to  a  position  as  master 
printer,  for  in  reality  before  he  was  eighteen  years  of  age,  very  much  of  the 
chief  responsibility  of  the  office  rested  upon  Iris  shoulders.  And  it  is  very 
pleasant  and  gratifying  to  observe,  in  his  modest  account  of  himself  during 
this  period,  how  his  successful  performance  of  many  most  difficult  and  deli- 
cate tasks  won  for  him  the  confidence  of  those  whom  he  regarded  with  highest 
respect  and  esteem. 

He  quietly  remarks  : — 

If  I  have  been  of  service  to  him  [John  Cotton  senior]  in  conducting  the 
affairs  of  'the  office  with  faithfulness  aud  fidelity,  as  he  has  been  pleased  to 
acknowledge,  it  has  been  entirely  the  effects  of  the  kind  treatment  which  I 
have  invariably  received  from  him,  and  the  confidence  which  he  has  in  so 
gratifying  a  manner  reposed  in  me. 

May  14,  1826.  Last  week  Mr.  Cotton  commenced  printing  a  new  edition 
of  Thatcher's  Modern  Practice.  He  has  procured  a  new  press  (one  of 
Smith's  patent)  and  has  employed  two  pressmen  in  order  to  keep  the  press 
going  all  the  time  while  printing  the  above  work.  He  has,  also,  employed 
one  more  compositor.  The  appearance  of  the  inside  of  the  office  is  rather 
different  from  what  it  was  two  or  three  years  ago,  when  all  the  work  that 
was  done  in  the  office,  both  at  case  and  press,  was  done  by  me.  The  new 
press  cost  about  S230. 

This  was  a  superior  article  to  the  old  Eamage  press  used  during 
the  early  part  of  his  apprenticeship,  when  '"the  printing  of  each 
sheet,  on  both  sides,  required  four  separate  impressions,  or  four 
f  pulls '  as  they  were  called,  -with  the  bar  working  of  the  screw. 
While  one  pressman  was  engaged  in  this  process,  a  companion 
attended  to  the  inking  of  the  type  by  the  two  leather-faced  balls 
then  in  use."     He  writes  : — 

Feb.  6,  1827.  This  is  my  freedom  day;  twenty  one  years  of  age;  my 
apprenticeship  ended  and  manhood  attained.  Though  I  am,  at  present, 
considerably  out  of  health,  the  occasion  calls  for  an  expression  of  gratitude 
to  the  Giver  of  every  good,  for  so  large  a  share  of  health  as  I  have  thus  far 
enjoyed,  and  for  the  many  other  blessings  with  which  I  have  been  favored. 
I  shall  stay  with  Mr.  Cotton  for  the  present,  at  the  rate  of  eight  or  nine 
dollars  a  week,  and  go  on  in  much  the  same  manner  that  I  have  done. 


1894.]  „  David  Clapp.  151 

After  working  a  while  for  wages  at  the  same  place,  Mr.  Clapp 
formed  a  partnt-rship,  in  1831,  with  John  Cotton  senior  and  Henry 
S.  Hull,  under  the  firm  name  of  Clapp  &  Hull,  which  was  soon 
dissolved.  Mr.  Clapp  and  Mr.  Cotton  then  became  partners,  the 
firm  name  being  D.  Clapp  Jr.  and  Co.,  till  the  year  1*34,  when 
Isle.  Clapp  bought  out  the  business  and  continued  printing  and  job- 
bing on  the  old  corner,  184  "Washington  street,  uutil  l^Gl,  when 
Franklin  street  was  widened  on  the  north  side,  and  the  building 
taken  down,  Mr.  Clapp  having  been  a  worker  there  thirty-nine 
years.  The  business  was  then  removed  to  No.  334  (afterwards 
re-numbered  564)  AYashington  street.  In  1864,  his  eldest  son, 
John  Cotton  Clapp,  was  taken  into  partnership  with  his  father,  and 
in  1882  they  removed  to  3">  Bedford  street.  In  July,  1889,  the 
Bedford  street  building  being  taken  down,  the  firm  went  to  their 
present  location,  115  High  street. 

The  Boston  Directory  was  printed  in  this  office  from  1829  to 
1846,  and  the  New-England  Historical  and  Genealogical  Register 
from  January  1866  to  the  present  time.  Much  pamphlet  and  book 
work  has  been  done  by  the  firm  of  David  Clapp  &  Son,  an  especial 
attention  having  been  given  then  and  now  to  genealogical  and  his- 
torical productions.  Among  them  may  be  mentioned  volumes  of 
the  Dorchester  Antiquarian  and  Historical  Society,  including  the 
History  of  Dorchester,  the  ''  Clapp  Memorial/'  Szc,  &c.  The  latter, 
compiled  by  Ebenezer  Clapp  Jr.,  was  published  in  1876.  As  one 
of  the  committee  of  publication  of  that  valuable  work — Messrs.  Otis 
and  David  Clapp  being  associates — it  is  fitting  and  just  for  the  only 
survivor  to  bear  witness,  from  personal  knowledge,  to  the  fact  that 
a  large  amount  of  matter  was  added  through  the  untiring  efforts  and 
labors  of  the  modest  and  unassuming  printer,  in  text  and  notes, 
judiciously  compiled,  of  a  biographical,  genealogical,  historical  and 
illustrative  nature.  Several  visits  for  tins  purpose  were  made  to 
Newport  and  Warwick,  in  Rhode  Island ;  Scituate,  Massachusetts, 
and  perhaps  other  places  ;  to  the  first  and  last  mentioned  the  writer  had 
the  pleasure  of  accompanying  Mr.  Clapp.  From  Warwick,  by  inter- 
view and  correspondence,  a  large  amount  of  original  matter  was 
obtained  concerning  the  family  of  George  Gilson  Clapp.  See  page 
283  and  onwards  of  the  "  Clapp  Memorial "  volume.  The  same 
general  fact  may  be  mentioned  as  to  his  prompt  assistance  in  refer- 
ence to  other  parts  of  the  book. 

As  a  historian,  he  was  thorough,  counting  no  time  spent  in  patient 
research  for  the  verification  of  data  as  lost,  and  his  published  papers,  of 
which  there  have  been  many,  have  been  accepted  as  reliable.* 

The  publication  before  mentioned,  the  Medical  Intelligencer, 
printed  by  ^Ir.  Clapp,  commencing  in  1823,  edited  by  Drs.  Smith 
and  Parkman,  in  its  early  days  ;   succeeded  by  Dr.  Chandler  Rob- 

*  See  "Ancient  Proprietors  of  Jones's  Hill,  Dorchester."  pp.  63,  printed  in  1S83;  and 
"  Morton  and  Taylor  Estates  in  Dorchester,'*  pp.  8,  printed  in  1892. 


' 


152  „  David  Clapp.  [April, 

bins  Jr.,  Who  took  the  place  of  Dr.  Farkman  as  joint  editor  with 
Dr.  Smith,  in  1824,  was  subsequently  merged  with  another  period- 
ical, and  called  the  Boston  Medical  and  Surgical  Journal ;  contin- 
ued in  octave  form,  edited  at  first  by  Drs.  John  C.  Warren,  Walter 
Channing,  and  John  Ware.  It  became  the  property  of  Mr.  Clapp 
in  1834,  and  was  issued  from  his  press  without  the  omission  of  a 
single  number  until  December,  1874,  on  reaching  its  ninety-first 
volume,  when  the  work  was  purchased  by  a  company  of  medical 
gentlemen  and  removed  to  another  publication  house,  Mr.  Clapp 
having  been  connected  with  its  issue  for  about  fifty  years. 

Francis  Minot,  M.  D.,  of  Boston,  who  for  a  time  edited  the 
Journal,  writes  : — 

My  acquaintance  with  Mr.  David  Clapp  began  in  the  early  part  of 
1855,  when  an  effort  was  made  by  several  of  the  younger  members  of  the 
medical  profession  in  Boston  to  revive  the  standard  of  the  Boston  Medical 
and  Surgical  Journal,  which  for  some  time  had  fallen  into  a  condition  of 
decrepitude.  Although  doubtful  of  our  success,  Mr.  Clapp  cordially  sec- 
onded our  efforts,  and  before  long  the  subscription  list  contained  the  names 
of  a  large  number  of  our  profession,  not  only  in  Massachusetts,  but  in  almost 
every  part  of  the  country ;  and  its  reputation  as  a  scientific  journal  has 
steadily  increased,  until  it  has  become  one  of  the  most  valuable  medical 
periodicals  in  the  United  States. 

It  was  impossible  to  be  associated  with  Mr.  Clapp  without  being  im- 
pressed with  his  character  as  a  man  of  honor,  as  well  as  with  his  kiudness 
and  courtesy  towards  all  with  whom  he  came  in  contact.  Modest  and  re- 
tiring in  his  disposition,  he  was  one  of  the  most  intelligent  of  men.  while 
his  ability  and  knowledge  in  every  department  of  his  art,  and  his  familiarity 
with  the  requirements  of  medical  journalism,  contributed  greatly  to  the  suc- 
cess of  his  undertaking. 

About  the  year  1828  or  '29,  he  made  proposals  for  establishing 
in  Dorchester  a  circulating  library.  To  this  end  he  wrote  a  pleasant 
letter  to  the  Rev.  Mr.  (afterwards  Dr.)  Harris,  his  earliest  minister, 
asking  advice  on  the  subject,  thinking  he  should  soon  be  obliged  to 
resign  his  printing  business  on  account  of  ill  health  ;  but  the  project, 
probably,  was  not  carried  into  effect. 

Mr.  Clapp  never  held  a  public  office,  or  seldom  went  from  home 
for  any  purpose  until  the  infirmities  of  age  compelled  him  to  retire. 

St.  Matthew's  Church  was  the  first  incorporated  religious  society 
in  South  Boston,  dating  back  to  June  24,  1816.  The  connection 
of  Mr.  Clapp  with  this  Church  began  in  1843,  in  which  year  his 
wife  and  himself  were  confirmed.  He  was  chosen  junior  warden  in 
1846.  In  1858  he  became  senior  warden,  which  office  he  held 
until  his  death.  He  wrote  for  publication  a  number  of  articles  con- 
cerning "The  Early  Days  of  St.  Matthew's."  These  were  printed 
in  a  paper  called  the  St.  Matthew's  Echo.  They  contain  a  valuable 
summary  of  the  history  of  the  Church  for  several  years,  with  some 
account  of  its  rectors. 

Mr.  Clapp  was  made  a  member  of  the  Massachusetts  Charitable 
Mechanic   Association  in  Boston,  in  1839,  and  subsequently  a  life 


1894.]  ^  David  Clapp.  153 

member.  On  the  7th  of  March,  I860,  he  joined  the  Xew-England 
Historic  Genealogical  Society,  and  was  connected  with  the  Boston 
Old  School  Boys  Association  for  a  short  time  before  his  death. 

On  the  9th  of  April,  1SS»5,  he  married  Mary  Elizabeth  Tucker. 
a  daughter  of  Atherton  Tucker,  of  Milton,  where  she  was  born  the 
25th  of  August,  1808;  They  had  six  children,  all  living,  namely  : 
Mary  Susannah  :  John  Cotton,  married  Julia  Curtis  Crane  ;  Eliza- 
beth Atherton  ;  David  Capen,  married  Constance  Leocadie  Pierrelee  ; 
Caroline  Tucker,  married  Albert  A.  Chittenden  ;  Sarah  Ellen,  mar- 
ried Samuel  Newman  Chittenden. 

He  retired  from  active  business  in  1892,  gradually  failing  in 
health  until  his  decease,  May  10,  1893,  at  the  advanced  age  of 
87  years,  3  months.  The  funeral  services  took  place  at  St.  Mat- 
thew's Episcopal  Church,  on  Sunday  afternoon,  May  14th,  at  one 
o'clock,  in  the  Church  where  he  had  been  warden  nearly  fifty  years  ; 
the  present  rector,  Rev.  Albert  E.  George,  Rev.  Dr.  James  I.  T. 
Coolidge  (a  former  rector),  Rev.  Alfred  E.  Washburn,  Rev.  John 
T.  Magrath,  and  Rev.  Frederick  M.  Brooks,  officiating.  In  the 
morning  the  rector  preached  a  sermon  appropriate  to  the  occasion, 
which  was  printed.  The  interment  took  place  in  the  old  cemetery 
at  Dorchester,  corner  of  Boston  and  Stoughton  streets.  His  esti- 
mable wife  followed  soon  after,  passing  away  Oct.  2,  1893,  aged  85. 

Mr.  Clapp  was  a  remarkable  man.  Having  been  acquainted  with 
him  nearly  a  half  century,  we  can  safely  say  there  are  but  few 
among  our  acquaintances  of  whom  we  should  dare  to  use  language 
applicable  to  him.  His  great  diffidence  and  modesty  curtailed 
somewhat  his  status  with  the  public.  The  golden  rule  was  to  him, 
we  doubt  not,  a  standard  of  duty  in  his  business  transactions  : 
conformity  thereto  his  aim  and  object.  His  religious  views 
were  well  denned  and  positive.  He  was  straight-forward, 
upright  and  honorable.  During  his  apprenticeship,  early  life,  and 
later  manhood,  he  seemed  to  have  had  a  commendable  degree  of 
firmness  and  self  control,  based,  as  we  believe,. on  principle,  with  a 
sincere  desire  to  do  his  whole  duty,  as  he  understood  it,  in  his  deal- 
ings with  his  fellow  men. 

Let  others  speak,  as  we  are  pleased  to  know  they  do,  in  com- 
mendation of  our  friend. 

Albert  H.  Hoyt,  A.M.,  for  many  years  editor  of  the  Register, 
uses  the  following  language  : 

My  acquaintance  with  Mr.  Clapp  began  in  13G7  or  1868,  and  during 
the  eight  years  of  my  service  as  editor  of  the  Register  I  met  him  very 
frequently,  sometimes  daily.  The  acquaintance  thus  begun  was  continued 
to  his  death.  I  was  impressed  with  his  quiet  disposition,  his  strict  sense 
of  justice  and  fairness,  and  his  intelligent  mind.  He  was,  of  course,  a 
master  of  his  craft  and  art.  But  he  was  more  than  this;  he  had  a  very  full 
knowledge  of  some  important  periods  of  New  England  history,  while  the 
history  of  many  of  his  contemporaries  in  Boston,  and  of  events  which  oc- 
curred during  his  active  life,  was  at  his  ready  command.     In  this  way  he  was 


. 


154  David  Clapp.  [April, 

of  constant  assistance  to  contributors  to  the  history  of  our  local  affairs,  lie 
had  a  clear  and  terse  style  of  expression,  and  his  suggestions  were  often  helpful 
to  those  whose  writings  came  under  his  eye.  He  touched  nothing  with  hi3 
pen,  as  proof-reader,  that  he  did  not  improve.  His  own  frequent  con- 
tributions to  the  (i  Notes  and  Queries"  of  the  Transcript  are  of  permanent 
interest  and  value.  No  one  who  had  dealings  with  Mr.  Clapp,  or  who  met 
him  socially,  could  have  failed  to  be  impressed  with  his  modesty,  his  re- 
finement of  feeling  and  manners,  and  his  unfailing  kindness. 

Mr,  David  "W.  Lothrop,  of  West  Medio rd,  for  many  years 
connected  with  Mr.  Clapp 's  office,  furnishes  the  subjoined  estimate 
of  his  associate  : 

When,  in  1842.  I  first  saw  and  became  connected  with  Mr.  Clapp  in  his 
office,  I  was  struck  with  the  gentle,  spiritual  glow  resting  on  his  coun- 
tenance, so  rarely  seen  among  business  men.  Then  his  modesty  ;  his  simple, 
unpretentious  manners  seemed  to  sit  so  easily  upon  him,  and  so  to  become 
him,  that  I  regarded  him  as  a  man  of  remarkably  happy  elements.  Not 
long  after,  on  a  particular  matter  of  business  which  I  thought  I  might  ex- 
plain to  him,  he  seemed  much  pleased  at  what  I  had  to  say,  and  I  was 
gratified;  but  I  soon  found  he  knew  more  about  it  than  I  did. 

In  business,  Mr.  Clapp  was  industrious,  frugal,  and  remarkably  faithful 
and  prompt  to  his  patrons — which  latter  did  much  to  win  him  success.  His 
manner  was  quiet,  with  little  talk.  Noisy  and  blustering  men  he  dreaded; 
yet  was  frequently  obliged  to  meet  them,  and  at  times  suffered  from  them. 
Mr.  Clapp's  aim  was  not  to  do  a  great  or  showy  business,  for  which  he  was 
not  well  fitted,  but  a  moderate  and  honest  one. 

Although  Mr.  Clapp  was  not  ambitious,  in  its  broadest  meaning,  he  took 
a  reasonable  pride  in  his  business,  and  studied  to  give  a  respectable  stamp  to 
his  typography,  particularly  to  the  books  from  his  press  relating  to  history 
and  geuealogy.  His  proof-reading,  which  he  always  attended  to  himself, 
was  very  careful  and  thorough,  though  often  trying  to  the  nerves.  He  was 
too  conscientious  to  delegate  it  to  others,  and  would  seek  to  correct  errors 
in  quotations  and  dates  when  he  thought  they  might  be  wrong;  also  to 
make  the  sense  clear  by  proper  punctuation.  Consequently,  authors  were 
frequently  under  great  obligations  to  him  for  the  accuracy  of  their  pro- 
ductions. In  reading  proof  he  employed  no  one  to  go  through  the  manu- 
script while  he  looked  at  the  printed  matter,  but  glauced  from  one  to  the 
other,  with  a  result  remarkable  for  correctness.  In  this  way,  during  hi3 
long  term  of  service  in  the  printing  business,  the  amount  of  his  labor  was 
prodigious. 

In  one  sense  of  the  word,  Mr.  Clapp  wa3  a  timid  man — not  born  with 
the  frowning  brow  or  club  of  Hercules.  I  have  thought  sometimes  he 
felt  and  regretted  his  deficiency  in  this  regard.  In  moral  courage,  however, 
he  had  much  to  compensate  therefor.  His  was  the  courage  of  right, 
the  timidity  of  wrong.  His  opinions  he  deliberately  formed,  and  held 
to  them  with  reasonable  tenacity. 

Another  noticeable  characteristic  of  Mr.  Clapp  was  his  reticence.  He 
said  little  to  others  of  his  opinions  or  business;  enough  to  him  was  Ids  own. 
He  rarely  spoke  of  religious  subjects,  especially  during  the  business  hours, 
though  his  veneration  for  the  Deity  was  evidently  profound.  Apparently, 
as  a  consequence,  he  ever  seemed  happy  to  make  the  acquaintance  of  and 
respect  persons  of  a  religious  character.  To  him  a  Christian  was  the  highest 
style  of  man. 


1894.]  ,  David  Clapp.  155 

Intellectually,  Mr.  Clapp  had  a  very  fine  head  and  brain,  and  this  latter 
was  well  cultivated  by  his  own  efforts.  He  never  aspired  to  become  a 
noted  writer,  yet  his  productions  were  clear.  In  his  early  life  he  was  a 
respectable  French  student. 

During  an  unbroken  term  of  forty-six  years  (save  a  few  months  ab- 
sence) with  Mr.  Clapp  in  the  Medical  Journal  office,  from  1842  to  18S8,  I 
trust  we  respected  and  appreciated  each  other.  Our  tempers  seemed  to  fit 
remarkably  well  for  what  we  had  to  do,  and  we  never  passed  an  angry  word. 

John  Ward  Dean,  A.M.,  editor  of  the  Register,  says : 

My  acquaintance  with  Mr.  Clapp  began  in  the  autumn  of  1804,  when  he 
contracted  for  printing  the  Historical  and  Genealogical  Register.  I.  being 
a  member  of  the  publishing  committee,  saw  him  frequently.  In  October, 
]875,  I  became  the  editor  of  the  Register,  which  had  just  completed  its 
twenty-ninth  volume.  My  predecessor  was  Col.  Albert  H.  Hoyt,  who  had 
edited  the  work  for  the  eight  preceding  years. 

At  my  first  acquaintance  with  Mr.  Clapp  he  impressed  me  as  a  man  of 
sterling  integrity,  who  was  conscientious  in  all  his  business  transactions:  a 
longer  acquaintance  confirmed  the  impression.  He  took  a  deep  interest  in 
the  success  of  the  Register,  and  in  fact  he  was  one  of  the  original  mem- 
bers of  the  Register  Club  that  for  a  few  years  bore  the  pecuniary  responsi- 
bility of  this  periodical.  I  am  glad  of  this  opportunity  to  acknowledge  the 
literary  assistance  which  I  received  from  him  during  upwards  of  seventeen 
years  that  our  connection  continued.  He  was  a  careful  proof-reader,  but 
was  not  content  with  the  ordinary  work  of  proof-reading.  He  scrutinized 
the  articles  carefully,  and  often  detected  errors  in  the  manuscript  that  had 
escaped  the  eye  of  the  editor.  In  a  periodical  so  largely  composed  of 
names  and  figures,  this  was  an  important  assistance. 

It  gives  me  pleasure  to  recall  his  friendship,  and  I  shall  long  honor  his 
memory  for  his  many  noble  qualities. 

The  Rev.  John  Wright,  D.D.,  of  St.  Paul,  Minn.,  once  a  rector 
of  St.  Matthew's  Church,  writes  : — 

David  Clapp  was  one  of  the  whitest  souls  I  ever  knew.  His  friendships 
were  strong,  his  spirit  gentie,  and  his  piety  sincere  and  unobstrusive.  He 
was  wonderfully  self-contained,  and  when  lie  expressed  himself  uttered  the 
wise  and  the  right  word.  He  disliked  contention,  of  any  kind,  and  Was 
always  foremost  as  a  peace-maker.  And  when  I  preached  a  sermon  from 
the  text  "  Love  is  the  fulfilling  of  the  law,"  he  came  to  me  to  ask  for  the 
manuscript  that  he  might  publish  it  at  his  own  expense.  While  I  declined 
to  comply  with  his  request,  the  incident  shows  how  large-hearted  was  his 
love  for  his  fellow  men.  For  thirteen  years  I  was  associated  with  him  in 
the  work  of  St.  Matthew's  Church,  and  in  all  that  time  I  never  witnessed 
in  him  other  than  attractive  traits  of  character. 

Mr.  Oliver  B.  Stebbins  of  South  Boston,  a  near  neighbor  to 
Mr.  Clapp,  uses  the  following  language  : — 

He  was  a  good  citizen,  kind  friend,  an  able  and  conscientious  adviser  in 
all  that  pertained  to  the  welfare  of  the  community  in  which  he  had  spent 
so  many  years  of  his  life.  His  gentle  manners,  kindliness  of  disposition, 
wise  counsels,  unassuming  deportment,  ready  willingness  to  render  assistance 
when  required,  his  virtuous  life  and  high  character,  all  rendered  him  a  man 
worthy  to  be  honored,  respected  and  beloved. 


156  '-  David  Clapp.  [April, 

T3ic  Rev.  James  I.  T.  Coolidge,  D.D.,  a  former  rector  of  St. 
Matthew's  Church,  in  two  communications  to  the  children  of  Mr. 
Clapp,  thus  expresses  himself: — 

I  loved  your  father  almost  with  a  child's  love  from  the  first.  I  sought 
and  relied  upon  his  advice,  and  believe  I  never  went  wrong  when  I  followed 
it.  Sometimes  when  I  have  tried  to  speak  the  word  of  our  blessed  Lord 
and  my  heart  began  to  fail  me.  as  1  looked  over  the  congregation  the  rev- 
erent and  believing  attention  of  your  father  has  been  an  inspiration,  for  I 
knew  that  I  had  at  least  one  whose  sympathy  was  ail  my  own. 

As  the  rector,  so  also  the  parish,  of  St.  Matthew's  has  evavy  reason  to 
remember  and  honor  him  with  deepest  gratitude.  It  was  not  possible  for 
ODe  to  be  more  devoted  to  its  best  interests.  His  long  service  as  its  senior 
warden  was  the  sincere  work  of  disinterested  desire  for  its  best  growth  and 
prosperity.  No  one  was  a  more  generous  supporter  of  ali  its  burdens. 
Every  appeal  for  labor  or  money  received  from  him  a  ready  answer  up  to 
and  beyond  his  proportion.  He  loved  his  Church,  ami  as  often  as  the 
Sundays  came  it  was  his  welcoming  smile  which  made  all  feel  that  we  were 
brothers  one  of  another  in  the  Household  of  God.  Especially  was  he 
thoughtful  of  strangers ;  and  so  quietly  and  simply  was  his  service  rendered 
that  T  believe  many  wist  not  who  it  was  that  made  them  welcome.  I 
always  felt  that  when  the  offerings  were  gathered  the  gifts  were  more  abun- 
dant because  the  plate  was  presented  by  him. 

The  present  rector  of  St.  Matthew's  Church,  the  Rev.  Albert  E. 
George,  remarks  : — 

Anyone  who  had  intimate  acquaintance  with  this  good  man  will  bear  me 
out  in  the  statement  that  his  life  was  as  nearly  the  ideal  one  of  humanity  as 
any  thing  human  could  be.  He  had  that  attractive  simplicity  which  natur- 
ally evolved  itself  from  his  heart  because  he  had  a  deep  love  for  all  that 
was  good  and  true.  Simplicity  must  be  accompanied  with  other  character- 
istics. Modesty  and  sweetness  of  temperament  will  soon  make  themselves 
known.  He  had  these,  and  because  they  were  his  in  a  marked  degree  no 
one  ever  could  be  his  enemy,  much  more  no  one  desired  to  be  his  enemy. 
He  never  met  you  in  a  way  which  would  convey  any  other  impression 
except  that  of  love  and  kindness.  There  was  a  depth  to  his  spirituality. 
His  long  service  as  senior  warden  of  St.  Matthew's  Church,  through  many 
periods  of  anxiety  and  discouragement,  was  never  broken  by  any  disloyalty 
to  his  Church  or  tyranny  over  those  who  served  as  rectors.  There  is  not  a 
rector  living  who  is  not  ready  to  declare  that  the  inspiration  of  his  life  was 
an  honor  to  the  parish  and  a  stimulation  to  the  joy  of  being  a  Christian. 
He  never  used  his  office  for  any  other  purpose  except  the  glorification  of  the 
highest  objects.  Always  peaceable,  kind,  courteous,  discreet  and  loving,  he 
sought  the  opportunity  where  these  could  be  shown.  Men  never  mistook 
his  motives.  You  knew  him  before  he  acted  upon  any  measure;  you  found 
in  him  the  same  gracious,  tender  and  pleasing  disposition  afterwards.  He 
was  a  model  warden,  and  stands  out  before  the  Episcopal  Church  in  this 
city  as  such. 

Above  all,  he  was  a  Christian  in  the  best  sense.  He  lived  the  life  he  pro- 
fessed; no  false  notes  were  ever  heard.  He  did  not  go  to  Church  out  of 
mere  sentimentality.  He  went  because  he  knew  it  to  be  more  than  a  duty. 
It  was  his  real  pleasure.  His  venerable  form  adorned  the  sacred  place.  Al- 
ways generous,  always  seconding  any  nobie  undertaking,  he  identified  Lis  zeal 
to  the  very  last  with  those  works  which  would  show  forth  the  Lord's  praise. 


1894.]  British  Officers  serviny  in  America.  157 


BRITISH  OFFICERS  SERVIXG  IX  AMERICA,  1751-1774. 


Contributed  by 


Name. 

Bowden,  Thomas 


WOKTHIXGTOX  CkATTNCET  FORD,  Esq. 

[Continued  from  page  46.] 


of  Washington,  D.  C. 


Bowen,  John 
Bowes,  Frederick 
Boyde,  Thomas 

Boyle,  Richard 
Boyle,  Stephen 
Brabazon,  Edward 


Braddock,  Edward 
Bradstreet,  John 


Bradstreet,  Samuel 

Bragg,  Philip 

Brawn,  Benijah 

Bray,  Edward 
Breden,  Alexander 
Brehm,  Dietrich* 
Breney,  James 
Brereton,  Edward 

Brereton,  George 
Brereton,  Robert 
Brewer,  John 
Bridges,  Thomas 
Bright,  Allen 
Brigstock,  James 

Brigstock,  Robert 


Brightman,  Jacques 
Briscoe,  Robert 


Rant. 

Adjut. 

Ensign 

Lieut. 

Lieut. 

Lieut. 

Capt. 

Capt, 

Lieut. 

Ensign 

Ensign 

Lieut. 

Adjt. 

Capt. 

Colonel 

1st  Lieut. 

Capt. 

Colonel 

U.  Gen. 

Ensign 

Ensign 

Surgeon 

Capt. 

Lieut. 

Adj1 

Ensign 

Lieut. 

Lieut. 

Chaplain 

Capt. 

1st  Lieut. 

Ensign 

Ensign 

Lieut. 

Lieut. 

Lieut. 

Capt. 

Lieut. 

Lieut. 

Capt.     Lt. 


Lieut 


Regiment. 

46 

46 

46 

45 

64 

16 

16 

29 

95 

22 

22 

22 


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40 
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28 


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35 

55 

62 

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69 

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60 
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Date  of  Coirtnission. 

23  April,  1757. 
22  July,  1758. 
27  August.  1762. 
30  June,  1755. 
1  January,  1766. 
1  January,  1766. 
4  February,  1769. 

15  June,  1764. 
17  February.  1760. 
27  April,  1756. 

16  January,  1759. 
13  November,  1762. 

1755. 
5  September,  1745. 

8  March,  1757. 

19  February,  1762. 
29  June,  1755. 
10  November,  1761. 
10  October,  1734. 

10  August,  1747. 

9  November,  1760. 
3  November,  1768. 

11  October,  1762. 

27  December,  1755. 
20  February,  1756. 

28  September,  1761. 
27  April,  1756. 

20  November,  1758. 
30  December,  1755. 
11  January,  1740-1. 
26  February,  1760. 
20  July,  1760. 
7  September,  1768. 
24  April,  1761. 

3  June,  1771. 

16  February,  1747-8. 
1  January,  1756. 
14  February,  1760. 

4  February,  1756. 
21  September,  1756. 
1  July,  1762.' 


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VOL.     XLVIII 


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158 


British  Officers  serving  in  America. 


[April, 


Briscoe,  Robert 

Capt. 

65 

22  February,  1771. 

Briscoe,  Spencer 

Ensign 

GO 

4  October,  1770. 

Briscoe,  William  Musg. 

Ensign 

31 

3  October,  17G4. 

Bnstow,  Robert 

Apothecary 

Br. 

1755. 

Brittman,  John 

Ensign 

GO 

1  June,  1759. 

Broderick,  St.  John 

Ensign 

GO 

19  April,  1759. 

Brodie,  George 

2d  Lieut. 

21 

11  January,  1769. 

Brodie,  James 

Ensign 

45 

25  March,  1758. 

Lieut. 

45 

7  February,  1761. 

Bromhead,  Benjamin 

Major 

69 

15  June,  1764. 

Bromhead,  Boardmaa 

Capt. 

10  December,  1755. 

9 

27  August,  1756. 

Bromhead,  Edward 

Chaplain 

31 

9  January,  1763. 

Bromhead,  John 

Capt. 

69 

18  July,  1766. 

Bromley,  Edward 

Major 

31 

25  April,  1765. 

Brooke.  Robert  Bounds 

Ensign 

8 

6  November,  1772. 

Broughton,  Charles 

Ensign 

5S 

26  January,  1758. 

Brown ,  Andrew 

Ensign 

44 

9  May,  1757. 

Lieut. 

44 

25  July,  1758. 

Brown,  Arch.  Mont. 

Lieut. 

N.  Y. 

22  August,  1755. 

Adj't. 

N.  Y. 

15  January,  1756. 

Lieut. 

00 

15  June,  1760. 

Brown,  Hon.  Arthur 

Capt. 

28 

10  December,  1755. 

Major 

28 

16  December,  1763. 

Brown,  Charles 

Lieut. 

95 

7  March,  1760. 

Brown,  Francis 

Lieut. 

28 

9  April,  1756. 

Capt. 

28  March,  1763. 

Capt. 

28 

25  December,  1765. 

Brown,  Henry 

Chaplain 

27 

19  June,  1758. 

Brown,  Henry 

Lieut. 

22 

25  October,  1756. 

Brown,  Plenry 

Lieut. 

22 

17  May,  1757. 

Brown,  Henry 

Captain 

60 

18  April,  1761. 

Brown,  John 

Lieut. 

62 

9  February,  1756. 

Capt. 

60 

15  September,  1760. 

Capt. 

60 

14  January,  1764. 

Brown,  John 

Captain 

31  December,  1761. 

N.Y 

.    24  April,  1762. 

Brown,  John 

2*  Lieut. 

21 

3  June,  1767. 

Brown,  Mountford 

Lieut. 

95 

7  March,  1760. 

Lieut. 

35 

4  May,  1762. 

Brown,  Robert 

Eusign 

46 

22  November,  1756. 

Lieut. 

46 

16  November,  1758. 

Brown,  Thomas 

Lieut. 

35 

16  February,  1756. 

Brown,  William 

Lieut. 

35 

31  July,  1758. 

Brown,  William 

Ensign 

42 

16  July,  1758. 

Lieut. 

42 

20  March,  1759. 

Brown,  William 

Ensign 

60 

13  December,  1756. 

Lieut. 

60 

31  October,  1759. 

Brown,  William 

Capt. 

52 

24  June,  1771. 

Browne,  Arthur 

Ensign 

58 

18  October,  1760. 

Browne,  Charlotte 

Matron  Hos.   Br. 

1755. 

Browne,  Thomas 

Lieut. 

10 

13  September,  1770. 

Browne,  Thomas 

Capt. 

26 

3  March,  1772. 

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Browne,  Warham 

Ensign 

35 

24  January,  1758. 

Lieut. 

35 

7  April,  1760. 

Browne,  William 

Lieut. 

14 

6  June,  1766. 

Browne,  William 

Lieut. 

14 

10  June,  1766. 

Browne, 

Ensign 

31 

26  December,  1770. 

Browning,  William 

Major 

4G 

2  February,  1757. 

Bruce,  Lewis 

Chaplain 

47 

22  July,  1758. 

Bruce,  Hon.  Thomas 

Major 

60 

27  May,  176S. 

Lieut.  Col. 

65 

16  March,  1770. 

Bruere,  George 

Lieut. 

18 

4  February,  1769. 

Bruere,  John 

Lieut. 

14 

17  April,  1763. 

Bruyeres,  John  des 

Ensign 

35 

27  July,  1759. 

Buckley,  Thomas 

Lieut. 

29 

1  May,  1767. 

Bulkley,  Richard 

Lieut. 

45 

25  June,  1755. 

Bulkley,  Richard 

Ensign 

59 

30  October,  1772. 

Burchill,  John 

Ensign 

48 

29  September,  1760. 

Lieut. 

48 

20  May,  1762. 

Burden,  George 

Ensign 

95 

27  February,  1760. 

Burke,  John 

Ensign 

22 

21  September,  1756. 

Lieut. 

22 

16  January,  1759. 

Burn,  James 

Lieut. 

52 

21  October,  1758. 

Burnand,  Dennis  Ger. 

Capt. 

60 

14  January,  1756. 

Burnet,  Charles 

Ensign 

78 

8  May,  1760. 

Burnett,  John 

Ensign 

28 

26  July,  17G2. 

Lieut. 

28 

8  March,  1764. 

Burnett,  John 

Lieut. 

8 

21  April,  1768. 

Burnett,  Peter 

Qr  Mr 

14 

10  June,  1768. 

Ensign 

14 

24  July,  1772. 

Burnett,  Robert 

2d  Lieut. 

21 

21  February,  1772. 

Burns,  George 

Ensign 

45 

3  July,  1755. 

Lieut. 

45 

14  August,  1759. 

Lieut. 

60 

14  July,  1769. 

Burnsides,  Anthony 

Lieut. 

48 

6  May,  1761. 

Burrege,  J.  Leake 

Lieut. 

44 

16  September,  1760. 

Burrent,  John 

Ad  jut. 

60 

7  June,  1764. 

Burton,  Edward 

Ensign 

64 

11  September,  1765, 

Burton,  George 

Ensign 

1 

27  April,  1756. 

Lieut. 

1 

14  April,  1758. 

Burton,  George 

Lieut. 

95 

7  March,  1760. 

Burton,  Ralph 

Lieut.  Col. 

48 

15  October,  1754. 

Burton,  Ralph 

Colonel 

95 

10  December,  1760. 

Butler,  Piers 

Lieut. 

22 

16  February,  1755. 

Capt.     Lieut 

;.  22 

26  May,  1760. 

Capt. 

22 

12  November,  1761. 

Butler,  Pierce 

Capt. 

29 

30  July,  1760. 

Major 

29 

23  April,  1766. 

Butler,  Pierce 

Ensign 

46 

2  February,  1757. 

Lieut. 

46 

18  August.  1762. 

Butler,  Walter 

Lieut. 

N.  Y. 

,   25  June,  1725.* 

Butler,  William 

Major 

65 

16  May,  1766. 

Butrick,  George 

Q"M' 

46 

15  March,  1764. 

QrM< 

18 

11  July,  1767. 

•  Or  1728. 

159 


■ 


160 


British  Officers  serving  in  America. 


[April, 


Butterwiek,  Robert 

Ensign 

15 

19  September,  1765. 

Byrd,  George 

CaptT 

53 

27  December,  1755. 

Cadogan,  George 

Capt.     Lt. 

So.  Ca. 

25  April.  1747. 

Cahilj,  Moses 

Lieut. 

65 

28  February,  1766. 

Cabler,  James 

Lieut. 

60 

6  May,  1757. 

Calder,  Patrick 

Lieut. 

64 

3  October.  1757. 

Capt.     Lt. 

64 

12  Julv,  1770. 

Calderwpod,  James 

Capt. 

26 

24  July,  1767. 

Calderuood,  Samuel 

Ensign 

35 

14  September,  1761. 

Calderwood,  William 

Ensign 

16 

10  June,  1772. 

Caldwell,  David 

Surgeon 

9 

7  October,  1762. 

Caldwell,  John 

Lt.  Col. 

8 

27  October,  1772. 

Cameron,  Alexander 

Capt. 

78 

21  July.  1757. 

Cameron,  Alexander 

Ensign 

So.  Ca. 

25  February,  1761. 

Cameron,  Alexander 

Ensign 

46 

10  September,  1762. 

Cameron,  Allan 

Capt. 

77 

22  Julv,  1757. 

Cameron,  Allan 

Ensign 

78 

23  June.  1762. 

Cameron,  Archibald 

Ensign 

15 

9  July.  1760. 

Cameron,  Archibald 

Lieut. 

42 

25  Julv.  1762. 

Cameron,  Donald 

Lieut. 

78 

30  September,  1758. 

Cameron,  Duncan 

Ensign 

78 

25  September,  1759. 

Cameron,  Duncan 

Ensign 

15 

8  July,  1760. 

Cameron,  Duncan 

Lieut. 

43 

14  August,  1762. 

Cameron,  Evan 

Ensign 

78 

5  January,  1757. 

Lieut. 

78 

9  June,  1758. 

Cameron,  Hugh 

Lieut. 

78 

12  January,  1757. 

Capt. 

78 

25  September,  1759. 

Cameron,  Samuel 

Lieut. 

40 

4  July,  1755. 

Qr  M1 

40 

24  April,  1762. 

Campbell,  Alexander 

Lieut. 

42 

28  January,  1756. 

Campbell,  Alexander 

Lieut. 

62 

3  February,  1756. 

Campliell,  Alexander 

Major 

77 

7  January,  1757. 

Campbell,  Alexander 

Lieut. 

78 

7  May,  1757. 

Campbell,  Alexander 

Lieut. 

77 

29  July,  1757. 

Campbell,  Alexander 

Ensign 

77 

4  November,  1758. 

Campbell,  Alexander 

Ensign 

78 

23  July,  1760. 

Campbell,  Alexander 

CaptT 

78 

5  October,  1760. 

Campbell,  Alexander 

Lt.  Col. 

95 

22  March,  1761. 

Campbell,  Allan 

Capt. 

42 

15  March,  1755. 

Major 

42 

15  August,  1762. 

Campbell,  Archibald,  Sr. 

Lieut. 

42 

5  May,  1756. 

Campbell,  Archibald 

Lieut. 

78 

23  January,  1757. 

Capt. 

78 

29  April,  1760. 

Campbell,  Archibald,  Jr. 

Lieut. 

42 

28  July,  1757. 

Campbell,  Archibald 

Capt. 

42 

16  July,  1758. 

Campbell,  Archibald,  Jr. 

Ensign 

42 

21  Julv,  1758. 

Lieut. 

42 

14  February,  1760. 

Campbell,  Archibald,  Sr. 

Ensign 

42 

24  July,  1758. 

Lieut. 

42 

26  July,  1760. 

Campbell,  Archibald 

Captain 

42 

4  December.  1759. 

Campbell,  Archibald 

Lieut. 

42 

30  July,  1760. 

Campbell,  Archibald 

Lieut. 

29 

13  February,  1762. 

Captain 

29 

2  August,  1769. 

- 


1894.] 


British  Officers  serving  in  America. 


161 


Campbell,  Archibald 

Captain 

42 

Campbell,  Archibald 

Lieut. 

77 

Campbell,  Archibald 

Ensign 

69 

Campbell,  Archibald 

Lieut. 

26 

Campbell,  Ch.  Kenning. 

Lieut. 

95 

Campbell,  Colin 

Lieut. 

15 

Campbell,  Colin 

Ensign 

35 

Lieut. 

35 

Campbell,  Colin 

Lieut. 

77 

Campbell,  Colin 

Ensign 

35 

Lieut- 

35 

Campbell,  Colin 

Ensign 

44 

Campbell,  Donald 

Lieut. 

62 

QrMr 

60 

Capt.     Lt. 

60 

Capt.. 

60 

Campbell,  Donald 

Ensign 

42 

Lieut. 

42 

Campbell,  Donald 

Ensign 

60 

Lieut. 

60 

Campbell,  Donald 

Qr  Mr 

60 

Campbell,  Donald 

Lieut. 

77 

Campbell,  Duncan 

Major 

42 

Campbell,  Duncan 

Lieut. 

42 

Campbell,  Duncan 

Qr  Mr 

42 

Campbell,  Duncan 

QrMr 

26 

Campbell,  Duncan 

Ensign 

26 

Campbell,  George 

Lieut. 

80 

Campbell,  George 

Ensign 

42 

Lieut. 

42 

Campbell,  James 

Surg.  Mate 

Br. 

Campbell,  James 

Lieut. 

62 

Campbell,  James 

Lieut. 

42 

Campbell,  James 

Lieu*. 

22 

Campbell,  James 

Ensign 

48 

Lieut. 

48 

Campbell,  James 

Ensign 

77 

Lieut. 

77 

Campbell,  James 

Capt.    Lieut 

,  34 

Campbell,  James 

Lieut. 

69 

Campbell,  John 

Lieut. 

42 

Capt.    Lieut  42 

Captain 

42 

Campbell,  John 

Capt.     Lt. 

42 

Campbell,  John,  Sr. 

Captain 

22 

Campbell,  John 

Captain 

42 

Campbell,  John 

Major 

78 

Campbell,  John 

Captain 

78 

Major 

78 

Campbell,  John 

Lieut. 

77 

Campbell,  John,  Jr. 

Capt.    Lieut 

22 

Captain 

22 

Campbell,  John,  Sen. 

Lieut 

42 

VOL.    XLVin. 

15* 

29  April,  1762. 
13  June,  1762. 

I  September,  1768, 
25  December,  1770. 

7  March,  1760. 

4  September,  1754. 

II  April,  1756. 

27  July,  1759. 

13  January,  1757. 

23  August,  1758. 

5  October,  1760. 

9  November,  1764. 

4  January,  1756. 
18  August,  1756. 

14  April,  1758. 

29  August,  1759. 

5  May,  1756. 

24  July,  1758. 

6  December,  1756. 
20  August,  1759. 

6  June,  1757. 

]  1  February,  1757. 

17  December,  1755. 

23  July,  1758. 

3  September,  1766. 

13  July,  1767. 

1  March,  1770. 

28  December,  1757. 

8  May,  1759. 

24  July,  1762. 

1755. 

30  January,  1756. 

14  December,  1756. 

8  March,  1757. 
23  August,  1758. 

15  June,  1760. 

17  September,  1760. 
27  June,  1762. 

31  October,  1762. 
20  November,  1765. 

16  May,  1748. 

2  August,  1759. 
26  July,  1760. 

16  February,  1756. 
16  February,  1756. 

9  April,  1756. 

6  January,  1757. 
9  January,  1757. 
5  October,  1760. 
30  July,  1757. 
5  July,  1758. 
26  May,  1760. 
15  July,  1758. 


nuO 


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162 


British  Officers  serving  in  America. 


[April, 


Campbell,  John,  Jr. 

Lieut. 

42 

15  September,  1758. 

Lieut. 

42 

25  December,  1705. 

Campbell,  John 

Ensign 

78 

27  September,  1753. 

Lieut. 

78 

13  December,  1759. 

Campbell,  John 

Adj' 

77 

11  Julv,  1759. 

Campbell.  John 

Major 

17 

11  Julv,  1759. 

Campbell,  John 

Captain 

27 

25  March,  1762. 

Campbell,  Mungo 

Captain 

77 

15  September,  1758. 

Captain 

55 

17  September,  1760. 

Campbell,  Oliver 

Ensign 

21 

25  April,  1765. 

Campbell,  Robert 

Ensign 

62 

17  January,  1756. 

Lieut. 

60 

23  March,  1758. 

Capt. 

60 

27  April,  1762. 

Campbell,  Thomas 

Ensign 

62 

28  December,  1755. 

Lieut. 

60 

4  December,  1756. 

Campbell,  William 

2d  Lieut. 

94 

20  February,  1760. 

Campbell, 

Ensign 

78 

12  December,  1759. 

Candler,  Edward 

Ensign 

35 

11  June  1760. 

Cane,  Edward 

Lieut. 

35 

7  April,  1755. 

Capt.     Lt. 

35 

11  June  1760. 

Cane,  Edward 

Capt. 

43 

8  April,  1762. 

Capel,  Joseph 

Capt.     Lt. 

28 

8  March,  1757. 

Captain 

28 

3  October,  1700. 

Carbonell,  Thomas 

Ensign 

46 

2  February,  1757. 

Q1  M* 

46 

25  February,  1757. 

Carden,*  John 

Ensign 

17 

24  July,  1759. 

Lieut. 

17 

29  April,  1762. 

Carden,  John 

Capt  am 

60 

25  February,  1760. 

Captain 

60 

25  December,  1765. 

Carden,  John 

Ensign 

60 

7  August,  1771. 

Cargill,  Abernethy 

Ensign 

17 

18  September,  1760. 

Carleton,  Christopher 

Lieut. 

31 

29  July,  1763. 

Capt.    Lieut 

.  31 

25  December,  1770. 

Captain 

31 

25  May,  1772. 

Carleton,  George 

Chaplain 

52 

1  May,  1772. 

Carmichael,  Robert 

Lieut. 

10 

25  December,  1770. 

Camcross,  Hugh 

Ensign 

95 

3  February,  1760. 

Lieut. 

95 

26  June,  1762. 

Carr,  Maurice 

Major 

29 

13  February,  1762. 

Lieut.  Col. 

29 

23  April,  1766. 

Carre,  Stair  Campbell 

Ensign 

62 

7  January,  1756. 

Lieut. 

60 

7  Mav,  1757. 

Lieut. 

60 

8  May,  1764. 

Carrique,  John 

Ensign 

16 

20  November,  1765. 

Lieut. 

16 

4  Februarv,  1769. 

Carrol,  Edward 

Ensign 

16 

18  April,  1766. 

Lieut. 

16 

20  May,  1771. 

Carrol,  Frederick 

Ensign 

16 

1  January,  1766. 

Lieut. 

16 

4;February,  1769. 

Carrol,  William 

Ensign 

58 

11  February,  1758. 

Carson, 

Adj't. 

N.Y. 

5  July,  1755. 

Carson,  William 

QrMf 

40 

4  February,  1760. 

*  In  three  years  his  came  is  printed  as  Garden. 


. 


:, 


. 


- 

1894.] 


British  Officers  serving  in  America. 


163 


Carter,  Gilbert 

Ensign 

29 

13  February,  1762. 

Carter,  John 

Captain 

43 

20  June,  1753. 

Carter,  William 

Lieut. 

65 

6  February,  1759. 

Cary,  Hon.  Luc.  Ferd. 

Major 

60 

4  April,  1765. 

Cathcart,  Andre  w 

Lieut. 

15 

27  September,  1757. 

Captain 

15 

21  August,  1765. 

Catherwood,  Robert 

2d  Lieut. 

40 

2  April,  1757. 

Lieut. 

40 

10  October,  1761. 

Catherwood,  "William 

Surgeon 

40 

7  February,  1757. 

Caullield,  Jolm 

Chaplain 

17 

12  April,  1764. 

Cavendish,  Ld.  Fred. 

Colonel 

34 

30  October,  1760. 

Maj.  Gen. 

7  March,  1762. 

Chadwicke,  James 

Lieut. 

16 

1  January,  1766. 

Captain 

16 

4  February,  1769. 

Chalmers,  James 

Surgeon 

31 

1  April,  1744. 

/~1K              V      • 

Captain 
Ensign 

62 

46 

3  January,  1756. 
16  August,  1762. 

Chandler,  Edward 

Chapman,  Benjamin 

Lieut. 

18 

11  September,  1765. 

Captain 

18 

2  June,  1771. 

Chapman,  Eussell 

Lieut.  Col. 

62 

5  January,  1756. 

Charlton,  Denis 

Ensign 

28 

19  March,  1762. 

Lieut. 

28 

28  March,  1763. 

Charlton,  John 

Surgeon 

17 

25  April,  1762. 

Charleton,  John 

Ensign 

60 

4  October,  1760. 

Charteris,  Harry 

Captain 

62 

8  January,  1756. 

Chave,  John 

Qr  Mr 

17 

18  April,  1762. 

Cherrington,  John 

Surgeon 

Br. 

1755. 

Chester,  William 

Lieut. 

69 

8  April,  1762. 

Captain 

69 

12  August,  1768. 

Chetwode,  Charles 

Ensign 

45 

1  October,  1755. 

Lieut. 

45 

25  February,  1760. 

Chetwynd,  Hon.  William 

Ensign 

52 

21  February,  1772. 

Chisholme,  James 

Captain 

21 

20  December,  1756. 

Major 

21 

19  February,  1766. 

Chisholme,  John 

Ensign 

78 

17  January,  1757. 

Captain 

78 

4  September,  1759. 

Christie,  Gabriel 

Captain 

48 

13  November,  1754. 

Christie,  Gabriel 

Lieut.  Col. 

60 

24  December,  1768. 

Christie,  James 

Ensign 

60 

25  December,  1765. 

Christie,  John 

Ensign 

60 

28  July,  1758. 

Lieut. 

60 

15  November,  1765. 

Christopher,  John 

Ensign 

17 

21  March,  1758. 

Lieut. 

17 

18  September,  1760. 

Chute,  Eusebius 

Lieut. 

9 

14  July,  1759. 

Clanchy,  James 

Ensign 

64 

13  December,  1770. 

Clapp,  Thomas 

Ensign 

44 

6  August,  1760. 

Clarke,  Henry 

Ensign 

59 

28  June,  1769. 

Clarke,  James 

Captain 

45 

12  March,  1755. 

Clarke,  John 

Captain 

46 

13  October,  1762. 

Clarke,  John 

Lieut. 

59 

23  July,  175'J. 

Clarke,  John 

Ensign 

48 

19  March,  1758. 

Lieut. 

48 

8  March,  1759. 

Clarke,  Thomas 

Captain 

N.  Y. 

14  March,  1743-4. 

, 


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164 


British  Officers  serving  in  Ai 


[April, 


Clans,  Daniel 
Clavering,  John 

Clement,  Robert 
Clements,  Henry 

Clements,  Theophilus 
Ciephane,  James 
Clerk,  George 
Clerk,  George 

Cloas, 

Clowes,  George 
Clunes,  Gordon 
Cochran,  Gavin 
Cochron,  John 
Cockburn,  Sir  James,  Bt. 
Cockburne,  John 

Coekburne,  William 
Cockburn,  William 
Cockburn,  William 
Codd,  Robert 
Colchester,  Duncomb 
Coklen,  Rich.  Nicola 
Cole,  Arthur 
Colhoun,  -Alexander 

Colley,  Johnson 
Collier,  Samuel 
Collins,  Cba.  Husbands 

Collins,  George 
Collins,  Thomas 
Collingvvood,  Gilfrid 
Colquhoun,  James 

Colville,  Hon.  Charles 

Comberbach,  Edward 

Compton,  William 
Congalton,  Henry 
Connor,  Fitz  Maurice 

Conolly,  William 

Conran,  Henry 
Conte,  Peter  le 
Conte,  Marquis  de 
Conway,  Archibald 
Conynghame,  John 
Cook,  Robert 


Captain 

Colonel 

Maj.  Gen. 

Lieut. 

Lieut. 

Capt.     Lt. 

Lieut.  Col. 

Major 

Lieut. 

Captain 

Lieut. 

Ensign 

Lieut. 

Captain 

Ensign 

Captain 

Lieut. 

Adj't. 

Lieut. 

Capt.     Lt. 

Capt. 

Ensign 

Captain 

Ensign 

Ensign 

Surgeon 

Lieut. 

Ensign 

Surgeon 

Lieut. 

Adj't. 

Lieut. 

Captain 

Lieut. 

Ensign 

Lieut. 

Colonel 

Maj.  Gen. 

Capt.     Lt. 

Captain 

Captain 

Lieut. 

Lieut. 

Capt.     Lt. 

Ensign 

Lieut. 

Captain 

Lieut. 

2d  Lieut. 

Ensign 

Lieut. 

Ensign 

Lieut. 


GO 

52 


43 
43 
69 
78 
44 
77 
60 

8 
42 
62 

1 
48 
35 
35 

1 
15 
42 
59 
59 
42 
28 

N.  Y. 
N.  Y. 
58 
60 
45 
45 
60 
35 
45 
22 
22 
69 

62 
60 
65 
60 
16 
16 
18 
18 
10 

8 

Rangers 

58 

29 

1 

1 


7  July,  1761. 
1  April,  1762. 
15  August,  1761. 

24  December,  1770. 
10  December,  1755. 

7  March,  17G2. 
15  June,  1764. 

4  January,  1757. 

3  July,  1755. 

14  September,  1760. 

18  December,  1756. 

14  September,  1770. 

19  July,  1758. 

15  January,  1756. 
18  September,  1760. 
22  March,  175S. 

26  November,  1756. 

25  March,  1757. 

22  January,  1755. 

16  July,  1758. 

16  September,  1760. 
18  December,  1770. 
25  December,  1770. 

27  August,  1766. 

8  March,  1764. 
25  June,  1737. 

25  May,  1755. 

4  January,  1756. 
6  February,  1759. 
27  June,  1755. 

20  March,  1756. 
30  October,  1760. 

12  March,  1754. 

5  March,  1750-1. 

26  May,  1760. 

1  July,  1762. 
23  April,  1758. 

27  February,  1761. 

28  December,  1755. 

23  August,  1758. 
16  May,  1766. 

18  May,  1764. 

19  May,  1759. 

4  February,  1769. 
8  April,  1767. 

2  June,  1771. 

1  October,  1766. 
25  December,  1770. 
25  September,  1761. 
25  September,  1759. 

13  February,  1762. 
27  April,  1756. 

18  July,  1758. 


» .1 


1894.] 


British  Officers  serving  in  Ameru 


165 


Cook,  William 

Lieut. 

1 

Cook,  William 

Lieut. 

62 

Cooke,  Matthew 

Adj't 

95 

Cooke,  William 

Lieut. 

27 

Cooper,  Cunningham 

Lieut. 

62 

Cooper,  David 

Lieut. 

14 

Aclj't 

14 

Cooper,  William 

Lieut. 

28 

Cope,  John 

Captain 

18 

Cope,  John 

Lieut. 

48 

Coraoce,  John 

Captain 

20 

Corrance,  John 

Major 

8 

Cornish,  William 

Adj't 

31 

Lieut. 

31 

Corry,  Ralph 

Captain 

28 

Major 

28 

Cosnan,  John 

Captain 

45 

Cotterell,  William 

Captain 

45 

Cottey,  William 

Ensign 

46 

Cottnam,  George 

1st  Lieut. 

40 

Cottnam.  Samuel 

Captain 

40 

Cotton,  William 

Lieut. 

27 

Cotton,  William 

Ensign 

31 

Lieut. 

31 

Cottymore,  Richard 

Ensign 

So.  Ca. 

Lieut. 

So.  Ca. 

Couehe,  William 

Apothecary 

Br. 

Coutts,  James 

Ensign 

22 

Lieut. 

22 

Coventry,  George 

Captain 

N.  Y. 

Coventry,  George 

Ensign 

55 

Lieut. 

55 

Cowart,  Jame3 

Lieut. 

48 

Cox,  Nicholas 

Captoin 

47 

Cox,  Richard 

Ensign 

46 

Lieut. 

46 

Coxeter,  Henry 

Ensign 

60 

Cramahe,  Hect.  Theo. 

Captain 

15 

Crampton,  Josiah 

Adj't 

10 

Lieut. 

10 

Cranfurd,  Andrew 

Ensign 

77 

Craufurd,  Archibald 

Ensign 

77 

Lieut. 

77 

Crause,  Charles 

Lieut. 

65 

Crawfurd,  Henry 

Ensign 

52 

Lieut. 

52 

Crawford,  John 

Lieut. 

26 

Capt.     Lt. 

26 

Creed.  Francis 

Lieut. 

34 

Creed,  Francis 

Ensign 

27 

Creedlaud,  Simonides 

Ensign 

44 

Lieut. 

44 

I  January,  1757. 

22  January,  1756. 
3  July,  17*62. 

27  April,  175G. 

II  January.  1756. 

1  June,  1763. 

24  Julv,  1772. 
27  April,  1756. 

25  December,  1770. 
27  June,  1755. 

27  April,  1756. 

23  November,  1708. 

11  March.  1762. 

29  Julv,  1763. 

2  May,  1751. 

27  February,  1760. 
2  October,  1755. 

30  July,  1745. 

27  January,  1764. 

5  September,  1746. 

15  October,  1754. 

2  February,  1757. 
10  April,  1765. 

12  August,  1763. 

26  September,  1754. 

3  July,  1758. 

1755. 
10  March,  1761. 

16  December,  1762. 
25  August,  1761. 
25  December,  1755. 

24  July,  1758. 

6  November,  1755. 

2  July,  1753. 

21  September,  1756. 

25  July,  1758. 

3  September,  1759. 
12  March,  1754. 

4  December,  1769. 
21  March,  1765. 
24  November,  1762. 

24  July,  1757. 

31  December,  1761. 

26  May,  1769. 

8  December,  1759. 

6  November,  1765. 

7  March,  1760. 

27  January,  1772. 

27  Julv,  1762. 
27  March,  1758. 

25  December.  1758. 
6  November,  1761. 


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British  Officers  serving  in  America. 


[April, 


Crofton,  Edward 


Crofton,  Edward 
Crofton,  Edward 
Crofton,  George 
Crofton,  Henry 

Crofton,  James 

Crofton.  John 

Crofton,  Malby 
Crofton.  Walter 

Crogan,  "William 
Crookshanks,  Charles 
Crosbie,  Walter 
Crosley,  Leonard 
Crosthwaite,  W.  Ward 
Crotty  [or  Crottie],  Andrew 

Crow,  Richard 
Crownfield,  Henry 
Crozier,  John 
Cruikshanks,  Charles 
Cruickshanks,  John 


Crymble,  Edward 

Cuming,  Thomas 
Canison,  Thomas 
Cunningham,  James 
Cunninghame,  James 
Cunuinghame,  William 
Cuppaidge,  George 

Currie,  Samuel 

Cuthbert,  James 
Cuthbert,  John 
Cuyler,  Cornelius 

Cuyler,  Cornelius 
Dagworthy,  Ely 
Daliston,  Thomas 
Dalling,  John 
Dalling,  John 
Dalrymple,  Hew 

Dalrymple,  James 
Dalrymple,  John 


Lieut. 

31 

6  September.  1756. 

Capt.     Lt. 

31 

29  July,  1765. 

Captain 

31 

24  November,  1769. 

Ensign 

44 

Lieut. 

45 

25  September.  1759. 

Ensign 

46 

2  February,  1757. 

Ensign 

4S 

29  March,  1758. 

Lieut. 

48 

19  August,  1759. 

Ensign 

62 

18  January,  1756. 

Lieut. 

60 

24  March,  1758. 

Lieut. 

48 

25  January,  1758. 

Captain 

48 

13  April,  1759. 

Ensign 

48 

6  May,  1761. 

Ensign 

46 

24  July,  1758. 

Lieut. 

46 

19  October,  1762. 

Ensign 

16 

22  February,  1771. 

Lieut. 

62 

28  December,  1755. 

Lieut. 

45 

29  June,  1755. 

Lieut. 

95 

7  March,  1760. 

Ensign 

47 

2  August,  1762. 

Ensign 

44 

15  September,  1758. 

Lieut. 

44 

16  August,  1760. 

Lieut. 

48 

10  November,  1755. 

Ensign 

52 

6  November,  1765. 

Captain 

29 

25  December,  1770. 

Captain 

N.  Y. 

17  April,  1757. 

Ensign 

47 

1  March,  1760. 

Lieut. 

47 

24  February,  1762. 

Lieut. 

16 

25  December,  1770. 

Capt.     Lt. 

58 

26  January,  1758. 

Captain 

58 

18  October,  1760. 

Ensign 

18 

23  July,  1771. 

Ensign 

42 

6  February,  1759. 

Captain 

45 

1  October,' 1755. 

2d  Lieut. 

21 

12  September,  1766. 

2d  Lieut. 

21 

9  March,  1764. 

Ensign 

26 

18  April.  1766. 

Lieut. 

26 

26  December,  1770. 

2d  Lieut. 

21 

14  March,  1766. 

1st  Lieut. 

21 

21  February,  1772. 

Captain 

15 

3  December,  1762. 

Lieut. 

78 

18  January,  1757. 

Ensign 

55 

31  May,  1759. 

Lieut. 

55 

8  September,  1761. 

Capt. 

46 

9  May,  1764. 

Lieut. 

44 

15  November,  1755. 

Chaplain 

15 

19  October,  1762. 

Major 

28 

2  February,  1757. 

Lieut.  Col. 

43 

27  February,  1760. 

Ensign 

31 

8  April,  1763. 

Lieut. 

31 

19  February,  1766. 

Captain 

58 

28  December,  1755. 

Capt.     Lt. 

26 

26  December,  1755. 

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British  Ojji 


icers  servi 


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merica. 


167 


Dalrymple,  John 

Dalrymple,  Robert 

Dalrymple,  William 
Daltou/Blundel 

Dalton,  James 
Dalway,  Robert 
Daly,  Peter 

Daly.  Peter 
Dalyell,  James 

Dame,  George 

Dame,  Theophilas 

Daniel,  John 
Danks,  Benonie 
Dann,  Charles 
Darby,  John 

Darby,  Robert 
Darby,  William. 

D'Arcy,  Peter 
D'Arcy,  Robert 
DAripe,  Isaac  Aug. 

Darrell,  John 

Davers,  Sir  Charles,  Bt. 
Davers,  Charles 
Davies,  Daniel 
Davies,  Rowland 
Davis,  Michael 

Davis,  ,- 

Davison,  William 
Day,  Lawrence 
Dayrell,  Paul 

Dead,  Thomas 
Dealy,  Peter 
Deane,  Richard 
Dechair,  John 
Delacherois,  Mich. 
Delamaine,  Thoma3 
DeLancy,  James 

DeLancey,  John 


Ensign 

Lieut. 

Ensign 

Lieut. 

Lt.  Coi. 

Lieut. 

Capt.     Lt. 

lrt  Lieut. 

Captain 

Ensign 

Lieut. 

Captain 

Lieut. 

Captain 

Captain 

Ensign 

Lieut. 

Capt.     Lt. 
Captain 

Captain 
Captain 
Ensign 

Major 
Lieut.  Col. 
Surgeon 

Ensign 

Lieut. 

Captain 

Ensign 

Lieut. 

Capt.    Lie; 

Ensign 

Lieut. 

Captain 

Lieut. 

Lieut. 

Captain 

Ensign 

Lieut. 

Surgeon 

Captain 

Lieut. 

Ensign 

Lieut. 

Ensign 

Captain 

Surgeon 

Chaplain 

Lieut. 

Ensign 

Captain 

Captain 

Ensign 


14 
14 
31 
31 
14 
43 
40 
94 
10 
•21 
27 
42 
62 
80 
1 
8 


8 

95 
Rangers 

34 

17 

17 

55 

17 

17 

47 

95 

15 
it.  15 

31 

31 

44 

48 

5S 

64 

62 

60 

15 

52 

95 

52 

52 

95 

55 

31 

46 
9 

60 

60 

46 

18 


27  December,  1763. 

6  January,  1772. 

7  May,  1767. 

22  August,  1770. 
27  March,   17C5. 

27  April,  1756. 

22  October,  1762. 
7  March,  1760. 

24  January,  1766. 
16  Februarv,  1756. 
21  July,  1758. 

11  July,  1759. 
15  January,  1756. 

28  December,  1757. 

13  September,  1760. 
4  January,  1762. 

26  December,  1770. 

23  November,  1768. 

27  March,  1770. 

2  March,  1760. 

25  September,  1761. 
25  December,  1764. 

21  September,  1756. 

14  May,  1759. 

25  Februarv,  1757. 

6  May,  176*2. 
20  June,  1766. 

11  Jauuarv,  1758. 

22  April,  1762. 

25  September,  1757. 

26  September,  1764. 
10  November,  1762. 

10  August,  1765. 

28  October,  1761. 
28  March,   1758. 

11  February,  1758. 
20  February,  1768. 
9  January,  1756. 

9  May,  1757. 
13  August,  1756. 

3  May,  1765. 

7  March,  1760. 

9  May,  1766. 

6  March,  1771. 
28  June,  1762. 

4  December,  1759. 

11  August,  1765. 

10  December,  1755. 

12  July,  1759. 

15  November,  1765. 

8  March,  1757. 

12  February,  1759. 
19  November,  1771. 


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Br  ad  street's  u 

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y-               [Ai 

Delap,  Robert 

Ensign 

10 

4  December,  1769. 

Delgaruo,  John 

Ensign 

8 

19  December,  1768. 

Delhuntry,  Lawrence. 

Lieut. 

26 

28  February,  1766. 

Deinere,  Paul 

Captain 

So.  Ca 

.  26  June,  1754. 

Demerc,  Raymond 

Captain 

So.  Ca 

.  31  January,  1741-2. 

Dernier,  George 

Ensign 

60 

29  March,  1758. 

Lieut. 

60 

13  July.  1761. 

Lieut. 

60 

9  October,   1767. 

Denny,  Edward 

Ensign 

59 

13  February,  1762. 

Denshire,  George 

Captain 

9 

15  July,  1767. 

Denty,  Thomas 

Ensign 

58 

21  May,  1759. 

Derby,  John 

Chaplain 

43 

11  November,  1761. 

Desuoielles,  

Lieut. 

60 

26  February,  1756. 

Despard,  Andrew 

Ensign 

59 

13  February,  1762. 

Lieut. 

59 

26  December,  1770. 

Desseausr,  Joseph 

Col.  Com' 

62 

2  January,  1756. 

Dewitt,  Peter 

Ensign 

60 

1  May,  1757. 

Dickson,  Alexander 

Captain 

16 

17  June,  1761. 

Major 

16 

20  May,  1771. 

Dickson,  Hugh 

Lieut. 

29 

7  December,  1764. 

Dinsdale,  John 

Lieut. 

52 

31  December,  1759. 

Disney,  Daniel 

Adj't 

44 

20  January,  1753. 

Lieut. 

44 

29  June,  1755. 

Capt.    Lieut. 

80 

16  August,  1760. 

Captain 

'80 

4  October,  1760. 

• 

Captain 

44 

22  September,  1764. 

Disney,  Francis 

Captain 

21 

19  February,  1766. 

Dixon,  Charles 

Lieut. 

60 

21  December,  1771. 

Dixon,  Thomas 

lat  Lieut.      Rangers 

25  September,  1761. 

Dobson,  Henry 

Lieut. 

47 

27  June,  1755. 

Captain 

16 

28  February,  1766. 

Dobbyn,  John 

Ensign 

9 

21  November,  1763. 

[To  be  continued.] 

4      *-  9 

H 

GOV.  SIMON  BRADSTEEET'S  AXCESTBY.* 

By  Isaac  J.  Gree>twood,  A.M.,  of  New  York  city. 

A  manuscript  volume  of  personal  memoranda  by  the  Rev.  Simon 
Bradstrcet  of  New  London,  Conn.,  second  son  of  Gov.  Simon 
Bradstreet,  contains  this  entry : 

"March  12,  1670-71,  I  baptized  my  child.  He  was  named  Simon,  it 
being  my  own  and  my  Father's  name  and  Grandfather's." 

Going  back  another  generation,  we  learn  from  Mather  and 
Hutchinson,  that  the  governor's  grandfather  was  "a  Suffolk  gentle- 
man of  fine  estate,"  whose  son  Simon  was,  under  Dr.  Chaderton, 

«  See  Reg.  i.,  75;  viii.,  313;  Ls.,  113;  xxxviii.,  200. 


• 


1894.]  -     Gov.  Bradstreet*  s  Ancestry.  169 

one  of  the  earliest  fellows  of  Emmanuel  College,  Cambridge. 
Afterwards,  he  was  a  minister  of  Lincolnshire,  and  a  non-conformist 
at  home,  as  well  as  when  preaching  abroad,  at  Middleburgh.  The 
latter's  son,  Simon,  born  in  llorbling,  Lincoln,  March,  1603,  was 
also  for  a  brief  period  at  Emmanuel  College,  whence  he  removed 
to  the  family  of  Theophiius  Clinton,  fourth  Earl  of  Lincoln,  serving 
as  his  steward,  and  living  subsequently,  in  the  same  capacity,  with 
the  Dowager  Countess  Of  Warwick. 

Thomas,  Earl  of  Lincoln,  father  of  Theophiius,  died  in  January, 
1618-19,  a^.  48.  He  was  father  of  eight  sons  and  nine  daughters, 
of  whom  the  Lady  Arbella,  together  with  her  husband  Isaac  John- 
son, sailed  for  Xew  England  in  the  Spring  of  1630,  on  a  ship  named 
in  her  honor  ;  Bradstreet  himself  being  a  passenger  on  the  same  vessel. 
Johnson's  mother,  Elizabeth,  was  daughter  and  heir  of  the  l\ev. 
Laurence  Chaderton,  D.D.,  Prebendary  of  Lincoln,  above  alluded 
to;  who  was  also  one  of  the  translators  of  King  James's  Bible,  and 
the  first  master  of  Emmanuel  College.  This  institution  was  built 
in  1584  by  Sir  Walter  Mildway,  whom  the  Queen  greeted,  on  his 
coming  to  Court,  with  the  remark,  "  Sir  Walter,  1  hear  you  have 
erected  a  puritan  foundation."' 

The  Horbling  parish  register,  not  beginning  till  1653,  ha3  here- 
tofore barred  further  investigation,  as  to  the  family  in  that  locality. 
Fortunately  the  Bishop  of  Lincoln's  transcripts  have  been  recently 
examined  with  the  following  results  : 

Baptisms. 

From  the  4  April!  1602  to  the  24  Aprill  next. 
1.-— (1602,)  Samwell  sonne  of  Simian  Brodestrete,  Sf-ptenir  19* 
From  the  24  day  of  April  ....  (torn)  .  .  vnto  the  eyght  of  Aprill  1604. 
2. —  (100£.)  Simon  soone  of  Simon  Bradstret,  March  18. 

From  (Lady  Day)  the  25  March  1605  to  the  25  March  1606. 
3.— (160|,) March  9.     Mercief  daughter  of  Simon  Bradstreet. 

From  the  25  March  1606  to  25  March  1607. 
4. —  (160f-,)  Februarie  8.     John|  sonne  of  Simon  Uradstreete. 

The  transcripts  from  which  these  four  extracts  have  been  taken 
are  each  signed  by  the  Vicar,  Simon  Bradstreet ;  the  earliest  found 
during  his  incumbency  dates  "from  the  3  daie  q£  October  1596 
vntil  the  3  of  the  same  in  the  year  1597";  it  is  signed  "Syinon 
Broadstreet  Vicar'  ibm." 

His  own  burial  occurs  in  the  transcript,  running  "from  the  25  of 
March  1620  vnto  the  25  March  1621." 

(162?,)  Simon  Bradstreete,  Minister  (Friday),  Februarie  9. 

•  The  baptisms  all  took  place  on  Sunday  ;  the  years  are  inserted  according  to  the  com- 
putation then  in  use. 
t  The  infant  was  buried  two  davs  later. 
X  Was  he.  ancestor  of  the  Baronets  Bradstreet  of  Ireiand  ? 
VOL.    XL  VIII.  1 6 


170  -        Gov.  BradstreeVs  Ancestinj.  [April, 

His  will,  recorded  in  the  Consist.  Co.  of  the  Bishop  of  Lincoln, 
is  as  follows  : 

In  the  name  of  God  Amen  The  xx  day  of  Decemher  1620  I  Simou 
Bradstreete  of  Horblinge  in  the  County  of  Lincolne  minister  and  preacher 
of  Gods  worde  doe  ordayne  and  make  this  my  last  will  and  testament  in 
manner  &  forme  following  ffifst  I  bequeath  my  soule  into  the  hands  of 
Almightie  God  my  faithfull  Creator  and  in  Jesus  Christe  his  sonne  my 
Savior  &  Redeemer  and  my  bodie  to  the  earth  from  whence  it  was  taken 
and  my  worldly  goods  I  thus  bestow,  Item  I  give  and  bequeath  to  Saumell 
Bradstreete  my  oldest  sonne  xl?  to  be  paide  at  the  age  of  xxjt:'"  yeares  Item  I 
give  to  Simon  Bradstreete  my  second  sonne  xP  to  be  paide  at  the  age  of  xxjue 
yeares  as  is  aforesaid  Item  I  give  to  John  Bradstreete  my  youngest  sonne 
xl8  when  he  shall  accomplish  the  age  of  xxjtie  yeares  as  is  aforesaid  And 
my  will  is  further  that.  Margaret  my  wife  shall  have  my  house  wth  the  Close 
to  the  said  house  adjoyning  and  alsoe  the  medowe  and  all  other  things  to 
the  said  house  appertayniug  wch  I  bought  of  one  Richard  "Watson  of  North 
Rawcebv  in  the  foresaid  County  of  Lincolne  dureing  her  natural]  life. 
And  further  my  will  is  that  after  her  decease  that  the  said  house  medowe 
and  all  the  apptennces  thereto  belonging  or  apptuyninge  shalhe  soide  and 
the  price  thereof  to  be  equallie  devyded  amongst  my  three  sounes  if  then 
they  be  all  living,  if  not,  to  him  or  them  that  doth  surviue  or  live  Item  I 
give  to  the  poore  of  Horblinge  and  Brigend  x3  to  be  distributed  according 
to  the  discrecon  of  my  Supviso"  All  the  rest  of  my  goods  not  given  and 
not  bequeathed  I  giue  to  Margaret  my  wife  whome  I  make  my  sole  and 
only  Execute7  of  this  my  last  will  And  I  desire  James  Lambley  gentleman 
Robert  Taverner  and  Thomas  Wright  to  be  Superviso"  of  this  my  last  will 
In  wittnes  whereof  I  have  sette  my  hand  &  seale  the  day  and  yeare  above 
written — Simon  Bradstreete — James  Lainley,  Robert  Taverner,  Thomas 
Wright. 

Probatum  fait  temoi  testam'  apud  Lincoln'  xiij0  die  Aprilis  anno  dni 
1621  coram  venli  virs  Rogers  Parker  sacre  theolog'  Profess'  Decano  et 
Surr'  venlis  viri  croferi  Wivell  II  dcoris  RcU  pris  dni  Georgij  g'viden'  dia 
Lincoln'  Epi  vicar'  gehlis  &c  Commissuq'  fuit  onus  execurjois  liusdem 
testam"  Executrici  in  eod'  noiat'  prius  vigore  Comiss'  &c  iul'at'  saluo  jure 
&c. 

The  name  Simon  has  lorn?  continued  in  the  family,  and  is  still 
preserved  in  the  line  of  the  Irish  Baronets,  whom  Hutchinson 
alludes  to  as  connected.  However,  contemporary  with  Simon,  the 
Vicar  of  Horbling,  was  the  Rev.  Symon  Bradstreet  of  Hasset,  co. 
Suffolk,  living  1630,*  and  Symon  Bradstreete,  citizen  and  grocer 
of  Londou,  who  died  in  February,  1627-8,  as  we  learn  from  his 
proof  of  will  given  in  Mr.  AVaters's  Gleanings,  f  The  latter  leaves 
all  his  property  to  his  nephew  and  executor,  Samuel  Bradstreete, 
and  apparently  discards  his  daughter  Margaret,  who,  without  his 
"love,  leave  or  consent,"  had  married  Edmund  Slater,  citizen  and 
mercer  of  London.  Slater,  in  his  license  of  23  May,  1625,  for  a 
marriage  at  Lamborne  or  Birchanger,  Essex,  is  called  of  St.  Mag- 

«  Reg.  xxxviii.,  342. 
t  Reg.  xxxviii.,  205. 


1894.]         Itei\  Stephen  Peabody  of  Atkinson,  IT.  II.  171 

nus  (London)  ;  his  wife  of  Bishop's  Stortford,  Herts.,  and  her 
father  as  of  Brainford,  .Middlesex,  brewer.  Four  years  later,  7 
May,  1G29,  Edmund  Slater,  gent,  of  Bisliop's  Stortford,  Herts., 
widower,  aged  30;  has  license  of  marriage  at  St.  Bennet,  Paul's 
Wharf,  to  Grace  Grlascocke,  aged  21,  with  consent  of  her  father, 
Henry  Glaseoeke,  gent,  of  Farnham,  Essex.  Bishop's  Stortford 
lay  some  thirty  miles  north  of  London;  close  to  the  westerly  border 
of  Essex,  with  Farnham  and  Birchanger  just  above  it. 

If  we  may  judge  from  what  can  be  gathered  in  the  MSS.  of  the 
Dean  and  Chapter  of  St.  Paul's,  the  family  name  of  Bradstreet  is 
of  pure  cockney  origin,  originating  in  Bread  Street,  that  locality  in 
the  metropolis  where  was  anciently  established  a  bread  market. 
Thus  in  1273  Master  Thomas  de  Bread  Street,  clerk,  received  the 
grant  of  a  quit  rent  issuing  from  a  tenement  in  the  parish  of  All 
Hallows,  Bread  Street.  His  name  also  occurs  as  "de  Bredstrate," 
and  "de  Bradstrat,''  till  in  1291  we  find  him  Rector  of  Tollesbery, 
Essex,  acting  as  deputy  of  the  Bishop  of  London,  for  collecting 
from  the  neighboring  church  of  Heybridge,  the  tenth  lately  granted 
King  Edward  I.  at  Ely.  In  1293  Walter  de  Bredstrete  received  a 
tenement  in  the  parish  of  All  Hallows  de  Bredstrete,  under  the  will 
of  Peter,  son  of  John  le  Long  (sec  Gal.  Husting  Wills)  ;  and 
William  de  Bredstrate,  bokeler,  had  a  grant  in  1243  of  land  in 
Wood  Street,  parish  of  St.  Alphege. 


REV.  STEPHEN  PEABODY  AND  WIFE,  OF  ATKINSON, 
NEW  HAMPSHIRE. 

By  William  C.  Todd,  A.M.,  of  Atkinson,  N.  H. 
Read  before  the  New-England  Historic  Genealogical  Society,  February  7,  1894. 

In  the  general  attention  now  given  to  the  men  and  customs  of  a 
century  ago,  an  old-time  pastor  and  his  wife  deserve  special  recog- 
nition. 

Rev.  Stephen  Peabody,  the  first  settled  minister  of  Atkinson, 
N.  H.,  was  born  in  Andover,  Nov.  11,  1741.  He  was  a  descend- 
ant of  Lieut.  Francis  Peabody,  who  came  to  this  country  in  the 
"Planter"  in  1G35.  He  was  the  son  of  John  and  Sarah  (Ingalls) 
Peabody.  He  was  graduated  from  Harvard  College  in  1769,  a 
classmate  of  Theophilus  Parsons.  He  was  a  poor  boy,  and  used 
to  tell  in  after  life  of  his  struggles  to  obtain  an  education,  earning 
his  board  at  college  by  waiting  on  the  table,  and  carrying  with  him 
from  home  the  linen  he  needed  during  the  term,  which  his  loving 
sisters  had  laundered.  He  was  twenty-eight  years  old  at  gradua- 
tion, the  pater  omnium  of  his  class,  and  it  was  not  a  little  to  his 


172  ftev.  Stephen  Peabody  of  Atkinson,  K.  H.        [April, 

credit  that  his  age  did  not  alter  his  resolve  to  obtain  an  education. 
Having  fixed  upon  the  ministry  for  his  profession,  lie  studied  in 
the  family  of  a  minister,  for  it  was  before  the  day  of  theological 
seminaries,  and  defrayed  his  expenses  by  working  on  a  farm  and 
teaching  school. 

He  was  ordained  at  Atkinson  as  pastor  Nov.  25,  1772.  This 
town  was  a  part  of  land  purchased  of  the  Indians  by  (lie  inhabitants 
of  Pentucket,  now  Haverhill,  Mass.,  and  set  off  into  New  Hamp- 
shire as  a  part  of  Plaistow,  and  had  been  separated  from  that  town 
and  incorporated  Sept.  '6,  1767,  five  years  before  tin;  settlement  of 
Mr.  Peabody.  It  seem3  strange  to  this  generation  to  learn  that 
the  reason  for  the  separation  was  that  the  people  mi<jdit  have 
their  own  church  and  minister.  In  their  application  fo  the  legisla- 
ture for  an  act  of  incorporation,  the  petitioners  state:  "That  by 
reason  of  the  great  distance  of  their  dwellings  from  the  meeting- 
house they  undergo  many  and  great  difficulties  in  attending  the 
public  worship  of  Almighty  God  there,  and  that  tin-  said  meeting- 
house is  not  large  enough  to  accommodate  more  than  half  the  in- 
habitants of  said  town."  At  that  period,  as  is  well  known,  the 
church  was  an  institution  of  the  town  ;  the  town  as  :t  corporation 
was  holden  for  the  support  of  the  minister ;  and  each  citizen  was 
assessed  for  the  support  of  religious  worship,  as  for  other  expenses. 

The  small  salary  offered  Mr.  Peabody  well  illustrates  the  econ- 
omy of  the  times.  The  record  is  as  follows:  "Voted,  To  give  Mr. 
Stephen  Peabody  one  hundred  and  sixty  pounds,  lawful  money,  as  a 
settlement,  upon  condition  that  the  salary  begin  at  sixty-six  pounds, 
thirteen  shillings  and  four  pence,  lawful  money,  the  first  year,  and 
add  on  forty  shillings  per  year  till  it  amounts  to  eighty  pounds  per 
year." 

"Voted,  To  give  Mr.  Stephen  Peabody  ten  cords  of  wood  per 
year  so  long  as  he  carries  on  the  work  of  the  ministry  in  Atkinson." 
No  increase  was  ever  made  in  this  salary  during  his  long  ministry. 

The  people  used  to  settle  their  tax  individually  with  the  minister, 
with  most  of  whom  he  had  running  accounts  for  artirlcs  furnished, 
or  services  rendered,  and  at  the  close  of  the  year  his  rash  receipts 
were  often  very  small,  as  can  well  be  imagined,  lie  was  settled 
for  life,  as  was  the  old  custom,  and  remained  with  his  people  forty- 
seven  years.  In  Hampstead,  an  adjoining  town,  a  contemporary. 
Rev.  John  Kelly,  whom  many  now  living  remember,  was  pastor  of 
his  church  fifty-six  years.  The  ministerial  itineracy  of  a  later  period 
was  unknown.  Soon  after  his  settlement  the  Revolutionary  war 
began,  and  he  entered  Poor's  regiment  as  chaplain,  for  he  was  a 
brave  man  and  a  patriot. 

And  it  may  not  be  out  of  place  here  to  say,  that  in  praising  and 
honoring  those  who  fought  in  the  war  of  1861-Go,  we  should  not 
forget  the  soldiers  of  the  Revolution  who  endured  hardships  to  which 
soldiers  now  are  strangers,  Avith  no  motive  but  pure  patriotism  to 


1894.  J  Rev.  Stejihen  Peahody  of  Atkinson,  M  11.  173 

draw  them  into  the  service.  At  the  beginning  of  the  Revolutionary 
war  the  Continent:!]  Congress  sent  the  following  circular  for  signa- 
tures, which  deserves  to  be  more  generally  known  to  this  generation  : 
"We,  the  subscribers,  do  hereby  solemnly  engage  and  promise  that 
we  will  to  the  utmost  of  our  power,  at  the  risk  of  our  lives  and 
fortunes,  with  arms,  oppose  the  hostile  proceedings  of  the  British 
fleets  and  armies  against  the  United  American  Colonies.''  Every 
male  citizen  of  Atkinson,  ninety-seven  in  all,  signed  this  pledge. 
In  the  last  war  the  town  in  filling  its  quota  was  obliged  to  pay  many 
soldiers  eight  hundred  dollars  each,  as  bounty,  to  induce  them  to 
enlist. 

On  his  return  to  his  people  Mr.  Peabody  discharged  faithfully  all 
the  duties  of  his  pastorate,  and  they  were  many  and  varied.  He 
must  preach  two  sermons  on  the  Sabbath,  for  in  those  days  of  few 
books  and  papers  the  sermons  gave  food  for  thought  and  discussion 
during  the  week.  They  were  long  sermons,  too,  and  the  people 
were  not  tired  of  listening,  though  seated  in  a  cold  church  never 
warmed,  and  on  hard  sears  with  no  cushions.  All  attended  church, 
for  it  was  not  respectable  to  do  secular  work  or  seek  amusement  on 
the  Sabbath.  The  prayer  meetings  at  which  he  was  expected  to 
be  present  were  more  numerous  and  better  attended  than  now,  and 
more  pastoral  visits  must  be  made. 

Mr.  Peabody  kept  a  diary,  simply  a  record  of  what  he  did  each 
day,  without  a  reflection  or  any  statement  that  did  not  relate  to 
himself,  written  in  a  fine  hand  and  condensed.  That  for  1783  has 
been  preserved,  and  throws  much  light  on  the  life  of  a  clergyman  at 
that  period.      Some  entries  will  be  given. 

"Oct.  3.  Catechised  the  children  at  John  Dustin's."  All  the 
children  must  be  taught  the  Westminster  Catechism,  and  from  Sun- 
day to  Sunday  the  pastor  would  give  notice  what  families  would  be 
visited  during  the  week  "to  catechise  the  children,"  and  question 
them  on  the  points  of  doctrine  found  in  that  little  book,  once  so 
revered,  now  hardly  known.  At  the  appointed  time  the  children 
would  be  gathered  in  the  best  room,  dressed  in  their  Sunday  clothes, 
with  clean  faces,  to  receive  their  spiritual  teacher,  and  when  each 
child  answered  readily  every  question,  beginning  with  "What  is 
the  chief  end  of  man?"  and  the  pastor  commended  the  faithfulness 
of  both  children  and  parents,  all  eyes  sparkled  at  his  words  of 
praise.  Parents  were  proud  of  their  children,  and  children  proud 
of  themselves. 

"April  13.  Wrote  John  Little's  Will."  This  entry  shows  that 
a  pastor's  duty  was  not  confined  to  religious  instruction.  He  was 
the  scholar  of  the  town,  and  must  give  advice,  and  write  documents 
where  some  education  and  legal  knowledge  were  required,  and  he 
felt  as  willing  to  aid  his  people  as  they  felt  free  to  call  on  him. 
There  were  but  few  lawyers,  so  abundant  now. 

"July  16.      Went  to  Commencement."     No  clergyman  of  that 

VOL.   XLVIU.  16* 


174  Rev.  Stephen  Peabody  of  Atkinson,  JV.  H.        [April, 

day  neglected  to  visit  Cambridge  on  that  occasion,  if  only  from 
religious  motives.  The  strict  Puritan  theology  of  the  time  then 
prevailed  at  Harvard.  It  was  regarded  as  the  nursery  of  the 
church,  where  they  could  receive  large  draughts  of  spiritual  life  as 
well  as  mingle  with  the  scholars  of  New  England.  For  many 
weeks  after  his  return  the  minister  would  tell  his  people  what  he 
had  seen  and  heard,  and  they  were  no  more  tired  of  hearing  than 
he  was  of  telling. 

"Married  Jonathan  Johnson  to  Molly  Follansbee  ;  Moses  At- 
wood  to  Judith  AVadley,  all  of  Hampstead  for  a  dollar  a  piece." 
Again,  "Married  Major  Moore  to  widow  Little  for  two  dollars." 
These  entries  show  how  little  it  cost  to  get  married  a  century  ago, 
and  explains  in  part  why  so  few  then  led  single  lives.  As  a 
"Major"  was  quite  an  important  personage  years  ago,  and  from 
regard  for  his  dignity  would  pay  the  highest  price  where  his  happi- 
ness was  so  deeply  concerned,  it  would  seem  that  two  dollars  were 
a  big  fee.  With  no  knowledge  on  the  subject,  it  is  to  be  hoped 
our  clerical  friends  arc  now  more  liberally  rewarded.  One  can 
certainly  afford  to  pay  well  for  a  union  with  a  good  wife,  and  if  he 
gets  a  poor  one  he  may  as  well  begin  first  as  last  to  pay  dearly  for 
his  folly. 

"Nov.  6.  At  Mr.  Dow's  mill  raising."  Even  in  the  youth  of 
many  now  living  it  was  quite  an  event  to  raise  a  building.  The 
timbers  were  large,  some  of  them  big  enough  to  give  timber  for  a 
modern  house,  and  all  the  men  of  the  town  must  assemble  to  aid. 
The  minister  went,  too,  for  he  could  see  the  people  and  talk  with 
them.  Prayer  was  generally  offered  before  the  work  began.  Re- 
freshments were  provided  in  abundance,  and  New  England  rum 
was  never  wanting,  of  which  the  minister  would  take  a  little  with 
the  rest — only  a  little.  It  was  long  before  the  days  of  temperance  ; 
it  was  a  pure  liquor,  not  the  often  poisonous  mixture  now  drunk, 
and  if  the  people  became  a  little  excited  their  heads  were  clear  the 
next  day. 

"Dec.  26.  Got  my  wood."  Most  pastors  of  that  day  were  set- 
tled for  so  much  money  and  so  many  cords  of  wood,  and  so  it  was, 
as  has  been  stated,  with  Parson  Peabody.  Word  would  be  given 
out  that  on  a  given  day,  all  must  bring  the  minister's  wood,  and  a 
merry  time  they  had  of  it,  for  it  Was  a  labor  of  love,  and  all  rejoiced 
to  take  part.  No  one  could  work  too  hard,  and  the  heart  of  the 
pastor  was  not  more  glad  than  those  of  his  people  at  the  big  pile 
before  his  door.  No  sworn  surveyor  measured  the  allowance,  no 
short  sticks  were  slyly  put  in — the  minister  must  be  kept  warm,  for 
they  well  knew  how  welcome  they  were  to  his  fireside. 

To  add  to  his  means  of  support  he  had  bought  a  little  farm.  He 
did  much  of  the  work  on  his  land  with  his  own  hands,  and  in  his 
diary  he  speaks  of  "  getting  in  the  corn,"  and  "  husking  it,"  "  killing 
the  hog  and  cow,"  and  other  such  necessary  farm  labor.     The  out- 


189-4.]  JR&v.  Stephen  Peabody  of  Atkinson,  X.  II.  175 

of-door  exercise  kept  him  in  robust  health,  as  it  would  clergymen 
now.  He  was  a  large  man,  over  six  feet  in  height,  of  great  strength, 
with  a  keen  black  eye,  swarthy  complexion,  and  curling,  bushy 
hair.  lie  could  do  every  kind  of  farm  work,  tor  which  his  early 
life  had  prepared  him,  and  whether  holding  the  plough,  hoeing  corn, 
wielding  the  scythe,  harvesting,  or  gathering  his  fruit,  about  which 
he  was  very  select,  bearing  in  mind  his  guests,  no  one  of  his  neigh- 
bors could  surpass  him.  He  knew  no  fear,  and  in  his  youth  he 
had  been  a  famous  wrestle]-,  and,  it  was  said,  bad  men  had  not  im- 
frequ£i*tly  experienced  his  ''muscular  Christianity  "  in  a  way  they 
did  not  forget,  when  ihey  had  excited  him  to  holy  anger.  His  farm 
work  was  a  bond  of  union  between  him  and  his  people.  He  was 
one  of  them,  worked  as  they  worked,  did  as  they  did,  and  in  all  his 
labors,  in  time  of  need,  their  willing  hands  were  ever  at  his  service. 
It  was  the  advantage  of  a  long  pastorate,  that  the  minister  knew 
all  his  people.  The  population  was  then  stationary,  with  no  foreign 
mixture,  and  as  the  years  rolled  on  the  children  and  grandchildren 
of  his  first  charge  grew  up  around  him,  their  history  was  familiar 
to  him,  and  they  seemed  like  a  part  of  his  own  family.  At  funerals 
Mr.  Peabody  could  drop  a  sympathetic  and  sincere  tear,  for  a  friend 
had  departed,  and  at  weddings  he  was  the  life  of  the  company,  giv- 
ing loose  to  his  exuberant  spirits,  and  interspersing  good  advice 
with  the  cheerful  talk  befitting  the  occasion. 

Mr.  Peabody  was  very  hospitable,  and  his  diary  gives  evidence 
of  the  amount  of  company  he  entertained.  Almost  every  day  he 
speaks  of  persons  who  have  dined  or  lodged  with  him,  and  when  the 
labor  of  giving  names  was  too  great  he  would  write,  "full  of  com- 
pany." 

Before  the  introduction  of  railroads  it  was  the  custom  of  the 
farmers  of  Vermont  and  New  Hampshire  to  bring  their  produce  in 
their  own  conveyances  to  the  seaport  towns,  and  exchange  for 
groceries  and  other  needed  articles.  These  journeys  were  usually 
made  in  winter,  as  it  was  their  season  of  leisure,  and  in  sleighs  for 
ease  of  transport.  Often,  however,  the  snow  would  suddenly  dis- 
appear, so  that  the  farmers  made  all  possible  expedition,  travelling 
much  in  the  night.  So  well  known  was  Mr.  Peabody's  hospitality, 
that  many  of  them  would  stop  at  his  house,  and  they  were  welcome. 
His  doors  were  left  unfastened  at  night :  the  big  back-log  gave  heat 
to  his  sitting  room ;  and  they  would  enter,  warm  themselves,  chat 
with  the  good  pastor  in  his  adjacent  bed-room,  and  depart,  their 
faces  unseen,  and,  perhaps,  as  in  the  old  days  of  chivalry,  their 
names  unasked. 

He  was  a  gentleman  in  his  appearance,  and  paid  full  regard  to 
the  proprieties  of  dress  demanded  at  that  period  of  a  clergyman. 
If  when  at  work  in  the  field,  in  a  plain  farmer's  dress,  it  was  an- 
nounced that  polished  visitors  had  come  to  see  him,  he  would  quickly 
prepare  to  meet  them,  in  his  best  dark  garb,  with  his  white  cravat, 


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176  Rev.  Stephen  Peabody  of  Atkinson,  iV.  II.       [April, 

his  silk  stockings  meeting  the  breeches  at  the  knee,  and  the  silver 
buckles  worn  then  by  gentlemen. 

He  was  a  man  of  large  views,  and  one  of  his  first  anxieties  was 
tj  provide  for  his  people  better  means  of  education,  and  aided  by  a 
few  friends  he  established  Atkinson  Academy  in  1787,  though  it 
was  not  incorporated  till  1791,  the  oldest  in  the  state  after  Phillips 
at  Exeter.  Money  was  scarce,  and  to  raise  the  necessary  rands 
was  no  easy  task,  and  from  his  own  limited  resources  he  expended 
freely,  and  incurred  debts  that  embarrassed  him  to  the  end  of  his 
life.  One  of  the  means  then  common  to  secure  money  for  such  ob- 
jects was  lotteries,  for  there  were  no  moral  scruples  in  regard  to 
them.  In  the  year  1791  a  petition  was  presented  to  the  Xew 
Hampshire  legislature,  it  which  it  was  stated :  "  That  lotteries  are 
now  established  in  Massachusetts  for  raising  funds  to  support  acad- 
emies, and  for  various  other  purposes,  by  which  considerable  sums 
are  daily  drawn  from  the  citizens  of  this  state."  And  after  enlarging 
upon  the  benefit  to  be  obtained  from  the  lottery,  the  petition  prays  : 
"That  we  might  have  liberty  to  raise  one  thousand  pounds,  or  such 
other  sum  as  may  be  thought  proper,  to  be  disposed  of  for  the  ac- 
complishment of  the  above  purpose."  Massachusetts  was  authority 
then  as  now  in  morals. 

The  petition  was  at  once  granted  Feb.  17,  1791.  Then,  as  the 
town  was  so  near  the  boundary,  a  petition  was  presented  to  the 'leg- 
islature of  Massachusetts  for  permission  to  sell  tickets  in  that  state. 
It  was  refused,  not  on  moral  grounds,  but  the  thrifty  Old  Bay  State 
wished  to  reap  fully  ail  the  advantages  to  be  obtained  from  the  cul- 
tivation of  it  own  territory — it  believed  then  as  now  in  a  "  Home 
Market."  The  good  man  had  made  several  journeys  to  Boston  on 
this  errand,  and  it  was  with  a  sad  heart  that  he  turned  his  horse 
homeward  from  his  unsuccessful  mission. 

The  lottery  scheme  was  a  failure,  for  but  few  tickets  could  be 
sold  in  a  section  so  sparsely  settled  as  Xew  Hampshire.  His  ef- 
forts, however,  in  favor  of  the  infant  institution  were  not  relaxed, 
and  were  rewarded  by  success.  It  soon  gained  a  wide  reputation, 
and  students  flocked  thither  from  far  around,  many  of  whom,  as 
Levi  Woodbury,  Gov.  Kent,  Jonathan  Cilley,  President  Brown, 
in  after  years  gained  a  national  reputation.  Grace  Fletcher,  wife 
of  Daniel  "Webster,  was  one  of  the  pupils,  and  an  old  lady,  one  of 
her  schoolmates,  told  me  she  was  a  pale,  delicate,  modest  girl,  whom 
all  loved.  It  was,  I  think,  the  first  academy  in  the  country  to  ad- 
mit ladies  to  its  privileges.  The  tradition  is  that  "  Polly  "  Peabody 
told  her  father  she  was  going  to  the  academy.  He  was  amazed  at 
such  a  proposition,  for  up  to  that  time  but  few  girls  had  received 
more  than  an  elementary  education,  but  he  could  deny  his  only 
daughter  nothing,  and  she  and  some  of  her  companions  wore  ad- 
mitted, sat  with  the  boys,  joined  their  classes,  and  co-education  was 
established.     The  advocates  of  women's  riahts  should  give  merited 


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1894.]  Rev.  Stephen  PeaJbody  of  Atkinson,  A7".  //.  177 

credit  to  "Polly"  Peabody  and  Atkinson  Academy  for  this  advance 
movement  in  the  higher  education  of  women.  Parson  Peabody  re- 
ceived many  pupils  into  his  family,  as  he  had  erected  a  large  house, 
and  they  were  ever  after  grateful  for  the  instruction  and  refining 
influence  of  his  home,  largely  due  to  his  wife,  of  whom  will  be 
spoken  later. 

One  of  these  pupils,  the  late  Rev.  Dr.  Samuel  Oilman,  has  told 
how  his  mother,  left  a  poor  widow  with  four  children,  had  taken 
him,  her  only  son,  a  little  boy  of  seven  years,  to  Mr.  Peabody 's 
home,  and  related  her  condition  and  anxiety  for  the  child's  future. 
"Madam,"  was  his  reply,  "leave  your  little  boy  with  us.  He  shall 
be  one  of  us,  and  enter  the  academy.  If  Providence  blesses  your 
efforts  to  secure  for  yourself  a  livelihood,  well  and  good  ;  you  may 
remunerate  us  in  the  usual  way.  Bat,  if  you  are  doomed  to  strug- 
gle with  adversity,  be  not  anxious  about  your  son  ;  be  sure  he  shall 
have  a  home  and  an  education."  His  wife  was  sitting  near  knitting, 
and  smiled  approval  of  her  husband's  words.  "Was  not  this  practi- 
cal Christianity?  It  can  well  be  imagined  with  what  a  light  heart 
that  mother  drove  back  the  next  morning  to  her  home  in  Glouces- 
ter. It  should  be  added  that  the  debt  was  fully  paid  in  after  years, 
so  far  as  money  could  pay  it.  It  is  an  illustration  of  the  kindness, 
unselfishness  and  hospitality  of  this  clergyman  during  his  whole  life. 

Not  content  with  the  establishment  of  the  academy,  in  his  wish 
to  cultivate  the  people  generally  he  started  a  library,  with  the  lead- 
ing citizens  its  shareholders,  which  was  continued  long  after  his 
decease,  and  had  a  marked  influence  in  forming  an  intelligent  com- 
munity. The  books  were  carefully  selected,  every  one  instructive, 
in  marked  contrast  to  the  volumes  burdening  so  many  shelves  of 
our  modern  libraries.      It  was  before  the  day  of  cheap  fiction. 

With  all  these  traits  that  could  not  fail  to  be  appreciated,  it  is 
not  to  be  wondered  at  that  he  had  a  strong  hold  on  the  respect  and 
affections  of  his  people.  Ng  child  passed  him  that  did  not  take  off 
his  hat,  or  make  a  courtesy,  and  it  may  be  said  that  at  that  period 
every  child  was  taught  at  home  and  at  school  to  show  this  civility  to 
the  passing  stranger,  and  punished  for  disobedience.  In  far  off  Ham- 
merf'est,  in  Norway,  a  few  years  ago,  the  writer  was  struck  with 
this  attention  to  a  stranger,  recalling  the  instruction  of  his  boyhood. 
Are  our  children  better  now  for  its  disregard  ? 

In  the  church  at  the  close  of  the  service,  the  congregation  rose, 
and  remained  standing  till  Mr.  Peabody  had  left  the  house,  bowing 
on  each  side  as  he  passed  down  the  aisle  followed  by  his  wife.  He 
was  never  spoken  of,  or  to,  lightly,  but  usually  as  "  Sir  Peabody," 
or  "  Parson  Peabody." 

He  was  not  a  learned  man,  and  his  theological  library  was  said 
not  to  have  contained  more  than  fiftv  volumes,  yet  his  talents  were 
certainly  very  respectable.  He  was  not  unfrequently  called  upon 
to  pseach  at  the  ordination  exercises  of  his  brother  clergymen,  and 


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178  Bev.  Stephen  Peabody  of  Atkinson,  N~.  II.       [April, 

once  preached  the  annual  sermon  before  the  Xew  Hampshire  legis- 
lature. His  sermons  were  written  in  a  fine  hand,  on  small  sheets 
of  paper,  for  economy  was  required  even  in  small  things.  Sermons 
then  were  divided  into  many  heads,  but  he  rarely  went  beyond 
"fifthly."  He  had  the  attention  of  his  hearers,  of  the  older  portion 
from  interest,  and  the  younger  people  seated  in  the  large  galleries 
were  kept  in  order  by  tithingmen,  regularly  appointed  by  the  town 
at  their  annual  meetings  to  look  after  unruly  boys.  Mr.  Peabody 
did  not  hesitate  himself  to  stop  in  his  sermon  and  rebuke  any  im- 
propriety in  the  house  of  God.  After  the  religious  exercises  had 
been  finished,  it  was  the  custom  of  the  town  clerk  to  read  the  inten- 
tions of  marriage,  when  all,  especially  the  young,  were  eager  listen- 
ers. It  was  certainly  a  proof  of  his  ability  that  his  people  were  for 
so  long  a  time  united  under  his  teachings.  But  it  was  a  period  of 
faith,  of  adherence  to  time-honored  views,  before  the  "divers  and 
strange  doctrines  "  that  have  since  divided  the  churches  had  crept 
in.  It  was  a  sufficient  ground  of  belief  that  "  Parson  Peabody  "  and 
the  Bible  said  it.  An  unbeliever  in  the  old  Orthodoxy  was  looked 
upon  with  suspicion,  and  suffered  in  his  social  intercourse  as  a 
dangerous  associate,  especially  for  the  young.  An  old  Boston 
teacher  who  had  taught  Edward  Everett  came  to  spend  his  declin- 
ing years  in  the  town,  but  found  it  prudent  to  conceal  his  Unita- 
rianism/and  Avhen  asked  his  religious  belief  would  evade  a  direct 
answer  by  saying:  "My  wife  is  a  Methodist."  He  attended  the 
service,  and  contributed  as  did  his  neighbors. 

Mr.  Peabody  had  a  happy  temperament  and  joyous  nature,  and 
was  fond  of  a  joke.  He  was  quick  to  see  the  humor  of  any  inci- 
dent, and  told  a  story  or  anecdote  with  much  glee,  often  rising  and 
using  action  to  add  to  the  effect,  and  joining  heartily  in  the  laughter 
that  followed.  He  was  i.  fine  singer,  revelled  in  music,  and  often 
the  first  thing  heard  in  his  house  in  the  morning  was  his  loud  melo- 
dious voice  in  some  song,  like  "  The  bright  rosy  morning  peeps 
over  the  hills,"  arousing  the  sleeping  inmates.  When  riding  alone, 
or  at  home,  the  impulse  would  seize  him,  and  he  would  break  out 
in  some  favorite  tune.  He  joined  in  the  singing  at  the  church,  and 
if  there  was  any  deficiency  he  supplied  it,  sometimes  taking  the 
place  of  the  choir.  He  played  the  violin,  and  would  draw  from  its 
chords  exquisite  music,  and  it  was  thought  that  he  woidd  gladly 
have  danced  but  for  his  profession. 

In  his  domestic  relations  Mr.  Peabody  was  fortunate.  He  mar- 
ried his  first  wife  Jan.  l'J,  1773,  soon  after  his  settlement.  She 
was  Mary  Haseltine,  daughter  of  Deacon  John  and  Mary  (Ingalls) 
Haseltine,  of  Bradford,  Mass.,  and  an  aunt  of  the  missionary  Mrs. 
Judson  and  of  Miss  Abigail  C.  Haseltine,  so  long  the  able  princi- 
pal of  Bradford  Female  Seminary.  She  was  a  devoted  wife  and 
mother,  whose  chief  happiness  was  in  her  family.  She  died  Sept. 
10,  1793.     Becoming  a  widower  at  an  early  age,  according  to  the 


' 


1894.]  llev.  Stephen  Peabody  of  Atkinson,  JSr.  11.  179 

custom  of  that  class  he  began  to  ]ook  for  another  wife,  and  in  due 
time  married  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Shaw,  widow  of  Rev.  John  Shaw, 
pastor  of  the  First  Church  of  Haverhill,  Mass.  Her  history  was 
specially  identified  with  that  of  Mr.  Peabody  and  his  Society,  and 
it  is  not  easy  to  speak  too  strongly  in  her  praise. 

She  was  one  of  three  remarkable  sisters,  daughters  of  Rev.  Wil- 
liam Smith,  of  Weymouth,  Mass.,  and' was  said  not  to  have  been 
inferior  to  either  of  her  sisters.  One  of  them  married  President 
John  Adams,  and  the  third  married  Richard  Craneh,  and  was  the 
mother  of  the  late  Judge  Craneh,  of  Washington,  D".  C.  Her 
father  had  educated  her  with  great  care,  and  as  the  wife  of  Mr. 
Shaw  she  oceupied  a  prominent  social  position.  The  clergy  of  that 
period  mingled  much  with  each  other,  to  discuss  theological  and 
other  questions  continually  arising  in  their  parishes,  and  to  talk 
about  new  books,  then  rarely  appearing,  and  give  to  themselves  and 
their  families  the  benefit  of  the  best  social  intercourse.  It  was  a 
custom  then,  long  since  passed  away,  to  hold  protracted  meetings 
for  three  or  tour  successive  days,  in  aid  of  a  revival,  at  which  all 
the  ministers  of  the  surrounding  towns  with  their  wives  were  gath- 
ered. As  few  events  but  death  caused  a  change  of  pastorate,  the 
clergymen  became  very  intimate  with  each  other  and  their  families, 
and  so  rare  a  woman  as  Mrs*.  Shaw  w-as  well  known  and  admired, 
not  the  least  by  Mr.  Peabody.  As  a  widower  he  consulted  her 
about  the  new  wife  for  whom  he  was  in  search.  "What  kind  of  a 
woman  do  you  want?"  she  asked.  "One  just  like  yourself,"  was 
the  gallant  and  sincere  reply.  Soon  after  Mr.  Peabody  mounted 
his  horse,  and  was  on  his  way  to  visit  the  lady  recommended,  when 
he  heard  of  ihe  sudden  death  of  Mr.  Shaw.  Other  thoughts  at 
once  took  possession  of  him,  and  he  turned  his  horse  and  went 
home. 

As  might  be  expected,  others  besides  Mr.  Peabody  were  anxious 
to  console  the  interesting  widow  in  her  bereavement,  and  among 
them  the  Rev.  Isaac  Smith,  a  cousin  and  youthful  admirer.  He 
was  preceptor  of  Byfield  Academy,  the  oldest  in  the  state,  and 
which  has  been  one  of  the  most  useful.  But  Parson  Peabody  was 
only  six  miles  from  Haverhill,  and  Mr.  Smith  was  fifteen,  and  nat- 
urally the  former  went  oftener  and  staid  later,  in  his  visits  to  the 
lady,  and  the  result  w^as  then  as  now  to  be  expected — he  won. 
Mrs.  Shaw's  domestic,  with  her  eyes  and  ears  open  to  passing 
events,  a  trait  by  no  means  lost  now  in  that  class,  kept  herself  well 
informed.  She  favored  Mr.  Smith,  had  regretted  his  early  disap- 
pointment, and  had  encouraged  him  to  renewed  efforts.  The  even- 
ing when  the  momentous  question  was  settled,  it  rained  hard,  and 
for  that  reason,  probably,  each  had  selected  it,  thinking  he  would 
have  a  clear  field  and  no  interruption.  But  the  distance  had  told, 
and  when  after  dark  Mr.  Smith  presented  himself  at  the  door  Lydia 
said  to  him  sharply :  "  You  are  altogether  too  late,   sir ;  Parson 


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180  Rev.  Stephen  Peabochj  of  Atkinson,  J\T.  H.       [April, 

Peabody  has  long  ago  dried  his  coat  by  the  kitchen  fire,  and  has 
been  sitting  with  Mrs.  Shaw  a  whole  hour  in  the  parlor."  Mr. 
Smith  turned  home  to  Byfield  and  never  married.  His  face  was 
said  ever  after  to  have  worn  a  melancholy  expression,  his  mind  no 
doubt  filled  with  the  thought  of  what  "might  have  been." 

A  word  should  be  said  of  this  domestic  Lydia  Springer.  She 
spent  her  life  in  the  service  of  this  one  family,  regarded  more  as  a 
friend  than  a  servant.  On  the  death  of  her  mistress,  she  was  re- 
tained by  her  daughter.  Her  wages  were  fifty  cents  a  week,  the 
ruling  price  then,  from  which  she  saved  a  considerable  sum. 

No  greater  blessing  could  have  been  bestowed  on  the  people  of 
the  little  town  and  on  the  infant  academy  than  the  advent  of  Mrs. 
Peabody.  She  became  to  them  as  a  superior  being.  With  a  cul- 
tivation and  refinement  to  which  they  had  not  been  accustomed,  her 
whole  appearance  was  an  inspiration,  for  her  person  was  very  pleas- 
ing, and  she  did  not  neglect  the  attractions  of  dress.  By  her  visits 
to  Boston  and  Quincy,  where  she  met  the  best  society  of  the  day, 
she  could  bring  back  information  of  new  books  and  authors,  uot 
neglecting  the  latest  fashions  for  her  own  benefit  and  that  of  her 
friends.  There  was  a  charm  about  her  conversation  and  a  kindness 
and  sweetness  in  her  smile  and  whole  manner  that  won  every  heart. 
She  had  many  students  of  both  sexes  in  her  family  over  whom  she 
tenderly  and  carefully  watched,  who  idolized  her,  and  would  never 
in  her  presence  do  or  say  a  rude  thing.  Everything  connected  with 
her  lifted  them  up  to  something  purer  and  better,  and  even  when 
they  left  her  home  she  followed  them  by  her  correspondence,  giving 
them  needed  advice,  precious  from  such  a  source.  She  always 
turned  the  conversation  at  the  table,  and  elsewhere,  to  instructive 
topics.  Familiar  with  the  best  literature,  she  would  quote  from 
such  authors  as  Shakespeare,  Pope,  Addison,  and  would  interest 
them  by  reading  such  books  as  Hannah  More's  Tracts,  then  recently 
published,  which  had  such  a  wonderful  and  healthy  circulation. 

"With  all  these  accomplishments,  she  was  not  above  attention  to 
the  common  duties  of  a  large  household  and  the  requirements  of  a 
poor  clergyman's  wife.  She  aided  her  solitary  maid  in  her  work, 
mended  the  stockings  and  attended  to  the  clothing  and  appearance 
of  the  little  boys  in  her  family,  and  was  above  no  labor ;  but,  how- 
ever engaged,  or  however  dressed,  she  Avas  always  a  lady  to  those 
around  her.  Careful  about  her  attire,  an  elaborate  "queenly  head 
dress,"  as  one  who  remembered  her  styled  it,  seemed  to  have  im- 
pressed itself  as  peculiar  to  her,  and  it  is  represented  in  the  portrait 
of  her  by  Stuart  still  in  existence.  It  is  safe  to  say  that  no  other 
lady  in  that  vicinity  ever  exerted  such  an  influence,  or  was  so  widely 
remembered. 

She  died  suddenly  April  0,  1815,  in  the  60th  year  of  her  age. 
John  Quincy  Adams,  then  in  London,  wrote  to  his  mother,  under 
date  of  June  30,  1815,  as  follows  :     "My  aunt  Peabody  was,  next 


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1894.]  Rev.  Stephen  Peabody  of  Atkinson,  A7".  II.  181 

to  you,  one  of  the  earliest  and  kindest  friends  and  guardians  of  my 
childhood.  Since  that  time  every  recollection  that  I  have  of  her 
is  of  acts  of  kindness  to  myself  and  to  my  children.  The  news  of 
her  decease,  therefore,  could  not  but  painfully  affect  me,  and  the 
sentiment  was  deepened  by  that  of  the  impression  with  which  I 
knew  you  must  have  been  affected  by  the  event."  Mrs.  Abigail 
Adams,  wife  of  President  John  Adams,  wrote  of  her  :  "Few  persons 
held  so  eloquent  a  pen,  or  could  find  such  ready  access  to  the  heart. 
I  scarcelv  ever  received  a  letter  from  her  which  did  not  draw  in- 
voluntary tears  from  my  eyes.  Her  imagination  was  brilliant,  her 
affections  pure  and  ardent,  her  wit  and  playfulness  full  of  good 
humor,  unalloyed  with  acrimony.  To  know  her  was  to  love  and 
respect  her.  How  many  owe  to  her  the  good  seed  which  she 
planted  in  their  infant  minds,  and  which,  I  doubt  not,  will  be  her 
crown  of  rejoicing.'' 

Two  children  by  Mr.  Shaw  survived  her,  a  son  and  a  daughter. 
Her  son,  William  Smith  Show,  was  graduated  at  Harvard ;  was 
private  secretary  of  his  uncle.  President  John  Adams  ;  studied  law 
and  was  clerk  of  the  United  States  District  Court.  He  was  one  of 
the  principal  founders  of  the  Boston  Athenaeum,  to  which  he  gave 
his  valuable  collection  of  coins,  tracts  and  curios.  He  died  in  Bos- 
ton, April  25,  1826. 

The  daughter,  Elizabeth  Quincy  Shaw,  became  the  wife  of  the 
late  Joseph  B.  Felt,  well  known  as  an  historian  and  antiquary, 
whose  acquaintance  she  had  made  while  he  was  a  student  at  Atkin- 
son Academy,  and  an  inmate  of  her  mother's  family. 

The  death  of  his  wife  was  a  severe  blow  to  Mr.  Peabody,  already 
beginning  to  feel  the  approach  of  old  age.  The  sunshine  of  his  life 
was  gone.  He  could  not  sing  and  joke  as  of  old.  He  was  feeble 
in  the  discharge  of  his  parish  duties,  and  rarely  wrote  a  new  ser- 
mon, but  would  read  from  Henry's  or  Scott's  Commentaries.  To 
the  last  he  retained  the  affection  of  his  people,  charitable  to  all 
omissions  in  one  who  had  served  them  as  pastor  so  long  and  so 
faithfully.     He  died  May  23,  1819. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Peabody  sleep  side  by  side  in  the  burying  ground 
in  the  center  of  the  village,  over  three  hundred  feet  above  the 
sea-level ;  where  can  be  had  a  view,  on  which  they  loved  to 
look,  of  the  Monadnock  and  other  mountains  to  the  west  and 
north ;  and  of  the  spires  of  many  villages  extending  for  miles 
south  and  east  to  the  ocean  at  Newbury  port.  A  few  years  ago  a 
loving  grandson  erected  a  handsome  monument  to  replace  the  old 
broken  stones,  preserving  the  original  epitaphs  that  record  none  too 
strongly  the  merits  of  the  departed.  Those  who  knew  them  cher- 
ished warmly  years  after  their  decease  the  memory  of  "  Sir "'  and 
"Ma'am  Peabody,"  and  spoke  to  their  children  and  their  children's 
children  of  their  many  virtues  and  hallowed  influence. 

Mr.  Peabody  left  two  children  by  his  first  wife,  a  son  and  a 
vol.  xlviii.  17 


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182  Memoranda  by  Robert  Foster.  [April, 

daughter.  The  son  Stephen  (Harv.  1794),  born  Oct.  6,  1773, 
was  judge  of  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas,  of  Hancock  County, 
Maine,  and  died  April  12,  1851,  at  Bucksport.  He  had  four  sons  : 
Stephen,  George,  William  and  Leonard,  all  deceased,  of  whom 
only  Leonard  left  children.  Leonard  married  Mary,  a  daughter  of 
Hon.  William  Todd  of  St.  Stephen,  New  Brunswick.  His  son, 
Harry  Ernest  Peabody,  was  graduated  from  Harvard  in  1887,  and 
from  the  Yale  Divinity  School  in  1891.  He  is  now  a  Presbyterian 
clergyman  of  Trinidad,  Colorado. 

Mr.  Peabody's  daughter  Mary,  usually  called  "  Polly,"  married 
Stephen  Peabody  Webster  of  Haverhill,  N.  IL,  but  left  no  chil- 
dren. 

For  this  sketch  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Peabody  the  writer  is  indebted  to 
the  recollections  of  aged  people,  and,  specially,  to  a  magazine  arti- 
cle of  the  Rev.  Dr.  Samuel  Oilman,  written  nearly  fifty  years  ago, 
from  a  heart  full  of  gratitude  for  youthful  training  in  their  home. 
Mr.  Geo.  A.  Gordon,  my  personal  friend  for  fifty  years,  com- 
mencing in  school-boy  days,  also,  has  supplied  important  facts  in 
regard  to  Mr.  Peabody  and  his  family. 


MEMORANDA  BY  ROBERT  FOSTER,    OF   KINGSTON, 

MASS. 

Communicated  by  Charles  E.  Briggs,  M.D.,  of  St.  Louis,  Mo. 

I  send  for  publication  some  entries  made  in  a  memorandum  book 
by  Robert  Foster  of  Kingston,  Mass.,  a  Royalist  who  left  Massa- 
chusetts during  the  Revolutionary  war,  but  subsequently  returned 
to  this  country,  some  of  his  children  marrying  here. 

The  facts  and  dates  are  probably  unknown  to  many  of  his  de- 
scendants. 

"  Kingston  N.  E.  in  the  County  of  Plimouth  Robert  Foster  born  April 
the  11th  1737  old  Style  new  the  22.     His  wife  in  the  same  town  Born  in 
August  the  3  Day  1747  married  the  9  Day  of  June  1766. 
Robert  Foster  Jur  Born  February  9'"  1767. 
Elizabeth  Foster  Born  19  th  Day  July  1769. 
Charles  Foster  Born  Novembr  3  Day  1772. 
Nathaniel  Foster  Born  August  25lh  1774. 

The  two  twins  Born  in  Lunenburg  John  &  Lydia  August  the  3  Day 
1780. 
My  dear  Daughter  Lydia  Drowned  in  a  Large  Iron  Kettle  In  July  the 
twenty-fourth  Day  1782  being  one  year  &  Eleven  months  and  twenty -one 
Days  old. 

Son  Joseph  Born  in  Lunenburg  June  21  Day,  of  a  Saturday  In  the  year 
of  our  Lord  1783. 


1894.]  -     Memoranda  by  Robert  Foster.  183 

Samuel  Born  in  Liverpool  at  the  old  House  belonging  to  Benajah   Col- 
lins in  the  month  of  October  14  Day  1786." 


"  I  Robert  Foster  was  put  into  Plymouth  Jail  October  21-1776 — Locked 
up  Close." 


"  Came  from  Kingston  with  the  family  September  the  10th  at  Eight  oj 
Clock  in  the  Evening.  The  next  Sunday  arrived  at  Sandwich  which  was 
the  12th  Day,  and  was  there  to  the  25th.  Then  Sailed  for  Nova  Scotia- 
Arrived  at  Lunenburg  the  28th  Day  of  the  same  month  1779. 

Lunenburg  Taken  by  the  americans  the  First  Day  of  July  1782. 
1  Maphrodite  Brig. 
I  Large  Topsail  Schooner. 
1  small  Sloop. 
1  small  Schooner. 
The  Town  surprised  about  Sun  Rise  and  many  of  the  principle  Inhabi- 
tants Plundered  of  their  Interest. 

1  Robert  Foster  Lost 

2  barrells  Sugar  G.   0.  0. 
1  Hhd  Rum 

&c  &c. 

1  Great  Coat  new. 

about  twenty  shillings  Cash. 
.   1  Pair  Silver  Shoe  Buckles. 

2  guns. 

which  in  my  circumstances  is  a  very  great  Loss  Considering  the  Losses 
heretofore  sustained." 

[Note. — The  plundering  was  interrupted  by  Mrs.  Foster's  apology  for  the 
disorder  of  her  household  caused  by  her  attention  having  been  directed  to  the 
care  of  her  children  suffering  from  the  small-pox.  The  abrupt  departure  of  the 
looters  saved  also  various  articles  of  value  brought  to  her  by  her  neighbors, 
who  probably  thought  that  her  house  might  be  spared,  because  she  came  from 
Massachusetts. 

The  maiden  name  of  Mrs.  Robert  Foster  was  Elizabeth  Bartlett.  She  wa3  a 
daughter  of  Dorothy  Wadsworth,  and  was  first  cousin  to  the  General  Wads- 
worth  (of  the  Revolution),  who  was  grandfather  of  Henry  Wadsworth  Long- 
fellow. Through  the  Wadsworths  the  poet  traced  his  descent  from  the  heroine 
of  Miles  Standish's  Courtship.  Mrs.  Foster's  father  was  grandson  of  Benjamin 
Bartlett,  who  married  Sarah  Brewster,  and  great-grandson  of  Robert  Bartlett, 
who  married  Mary  Warren,  the  daughter  of  Richard  Warren.  Collateral  lines 
of  the  Bartletts  in  this  country  and  in  England  are  well  known. 

In  1792,  the  year  after  the  return  of  the  Foster  family  to  this  country,  Miss 
Elizabeth  Foster  married  Captain  Morton  of  Plymouth,  a  soldier  of  the  Revolu- 
tion in  Col.  Bailey's  regiment.  Through  her  some  mementoes  of  earlier  days 
have  come  down : — some  articles  of  female  finery,  pieces  of  rose-colored  bro- 
cade, some  quaint  bits  of  jewelry,  and,  perhaps  the  most  characteristic,  a 
representation  of  George  III.  (Frye  pinxit),  and  one  of  Queen  Charlotte  dated 
1773.  They  are  before  me  as  I  write,  and  seem  to  be  hand-colored  mezzotints 
not  badly  doue.  They  come  from  the  shop  of  Caringtou  Bowles,  St.  Paul's 
Churchyard.] 


"John  Cobb  Yessell  seized  in  February  1787. 

Thomas  Foster  of   Plymouth  Esq  Departed  this  Life  January  the  23d 
Day  1777  in  the  Seventy-Second  year  of  his  Age. 


. 


• 


184  Letters  of  Col.  Thomas  ^Yestbrook  and  others.      [April, 

[Note. — TheTkomas  Foster  whose  death  is  recorded  is  probably  the  uncle 
of  Robert  Foster.  His  uncle  Thomas  was  born  in  1705,  according  to  Mr.  Davis, 
itr  the  "  Anqient  Landmarks  of  Plymouth."  He  (Thomas  Foster)  is  evidently 
the  loyalist  mentioned  on  page  113  of  this  book.  There  is  an  error  of'two  years 
in  his  age,  and  the  "graduate  of  Harvard  1745"  there  mentioned  may  be  his 
son  Thomas,  born  1727.  but  probably  not  the  father  as  stated. 

These  Fosters  came  from  John  Foster  of  Marshtield,  who  married  about  ltit34, 
Mary  CnilHngworth  of  Lynn.  John  Foster  was  son  of  Thomas  Foster  of  Wey- 
mouth aboutl640.] 

My  Brother  John  Foster  Departed  this  Life  July  5th  1753  (1785?)  John 
Brit  of  Newbury  informed  me  on  the  Island  of  Cape  Britton. 

February  the  12th  1785  the  Worst  Storm  in  the  Winter.  It  began  in 
the  Evening  and  Continued  till  the  next  Day. 

Came  from  Liverpool  May  the  15th  1791  with  my  family  and  was  tea 
Days  corning." 


LETTERS  OF  COL.  THOMAS  WESTBROOK 
AND  OTHERS, 

RELATIVE    TO    INDIAN    AFFAIKS    IN    MAINE. 
Communicated  by  William  Blake  Trask,  A.M.,  of  Dorchester,  Mass. 

[Continued  from  page  36.] 
Sir, 

The  Peace  bein^  concluded  with  the  Delegates  of  the  Eastern*  In- 
dians, I  have  determined  upon  a  Reduction  of  the  Forces  on  that  Frontier, 
And  therefore  I  desire  you  would  repair  to  Falmouth  in  Casco  Bay  with 
all  convenient  Speed.  &  reduce  the  Soldiers  according  to  a  List  of  the 
Numbers  I  shall  allow  to  each  respective  Place  wch  you  have  herewith  dd 
you.  The  Rest  of  [the]  Men  must  be  forthwith  dismiss'd.  And  in  their 
Dismission  you  must  have  a  just  &  impartial  Regard  to  those  that  have 
been  longest  in  the  Service,  who  are  on  that  Ace'  first  eutituled  to  this 
Benefit,  And  more  especially  the  Men  contained  in  the  other  List,  who  must 
be  immediately  discharged.  The  Garrisons  at  Fort  George  &  Fort  .Mary 
must  stand  according  to  their  last  Establishing.  And  if  there  be  wanting 
Men  at  either  of  those  Forts,  you  must  supply  them  out  of  the  Forces  be- 
fore their  Reduction. 

You  must  Notify  the  sev11  Places  in  that  County  that  the  Peace  is  con- 
cluded. And  give  Directions  in  Writing,  as  from  me  to  the  sevH  Com- 
manding Officers  for  the  Observation  of  it  &  also.  That  they  see  a  faithful 
Duty  perform'd,  And  that  they  be  not  off  from  their  Guard,  The  Danger 
not  being  wholly  over  till  the  Ratification,  But  in  the  mean  Time,  If  any 
Indians  come  in,  cultivate  a  good  understanding  with  them  [and]  Friend- 
ship. After  you  have  fully  perform'd  the  sev11  Articles  of  this  Instruction, 
and  are  return'd  Home  to  your  Family  you  will  look  upon  your  self  Dis- 
miss'd from  his  Majesties  Service  as  Commander  in  Chief  of  the  East" 
Forces.     Thus  Giving  you  hearty  Thanks  for  your  Faithfulness,  Diligence 

*  On  the  next  page  he  writes,  "  Western  as  well  as  Eastern." 


1894.]     Letters  of  Col.  Thomas  Westbrooh  and  others.  185 

&  Good  Conduct  in  that  Important  Trust,  I  hereby  Dismiss  you  &  your 
Company  (whom  you  must  forthwith  Disband)  from  his  Majesties   Service. 

Endorsed:   L*  Gov.  Orders  to  Coll. 
Westbrook  for  Dismissing  the  Forces.  [William  Dummer.] 

Dec.  21,  1725. 

Mass.  Arch.  52:  309-311. 


Portsm0  Jan^  28th  1725.  6. 
May  it  Please  your  Honour, 

I  have  been  East  as  far  as  Falmouth,  and  dismisstt  the  forces  agree- 
able to  your  Honours  orders,  and  have  given  directions  to  the  Commanders 
of  Each  party  Remaining  (Pursuant  to  Yor  Honours  order)  to  observe  the 
Peace  made  with  the  Delegates  of  the  Eastern  Indians. 
I  am  Your  Honours 
Mass.  Arch.  52:  312.  Most  Dutifull  Servant 

Tho"  Westbrook. 


Agemogen*  Reach  Feb*  18th  1725 [6]. 
May  it  Please  your  Honour, 

Pursuant  to  your  Honours  Orders  I  made  the  best  Dispatch  I  cou'd 
to  land  the  Indians  at  this  place,  but  not  finding  any  Indians  here  We  fir'd 
two  Gunns  and  the  next  day  six  Indians  came  to  us  who  inform'd  that  the 
Tribe  was  at  Mount  Desert.  We  thereupon  made  sail  and  went  up  into  a 
large  Bay  on  the  Back  of  Mount  Desert  where  we  found  them.  When 
they  had  done  trading  they  Consented  to  our  Departure,  and  the  twentieth 
of  Jany  we  sail'd  for  S'  George's.  Night  coming  on  We  harbour'd  in 
Agemagen  expecting  next  day  to  have  gain'd  S'  Georges,  but  contrary  to 
what  the  Indians  told  us  &  our  own  Expectations  we  were  wholly  debarr'd 
moving  by  reason  of  Ice.  The  Weather  continuing  extreara  cold  at  times 
we  are  still  detain'd  but  the  first  oppertunity  I  shall  make  all  possible  Dis- 
patch home.  Sundry  of  the  Indians  came  seven  or  eight  miles  on  the  Ice 
to  trade  with  us,  and  as  far  as  we  can  discover  there  is  only  Ice  to  be  seen. 
I  have  no  news  to  Communicate  to  your  Honr  so  Conclude  and  am 

Your  Hon"  most 
Mass.  Arch.  52:  313.  Dutifull  &  Obedient  Serv*. 

Thomas  Sanders. 


Agemogen  Reach,  Febry  18th  1725^6. 
May  it  please  your  Horn* 

These  Serve  to  Enclose  a  Letter  deliv'd  me  by  the  Cheifs  of  the Ind?* 
for  your  Honr:  And  as  we  are  frozen  up  here  I  tho't  it  proper  to  send  it  by 
the  first  Opportunity  not  knowing  but  it  was  of  importance.  The  Indians 
seem  to  be  very  well  Satisfied  in  ye  Trade  (but  by  perswasion  of  the  Jesuit.) 
disapprove  of  some  Artickles  in  their  Submission,  but  Capt.  Beane  being 
present  found  y'  he  misinterpreted  them,  &  he  inform'd  you  cf  the  true  mean-- 
ing  yr  of  wch  was  to  their  Satisfaction.  The  weather  hitherto  has  been  very 
Cold  and  all  the  bays  are  so  frozen  y'  y"  no  moving  by  water  unless  on  to 
the  Sea.  Having  nothing  farther  at  present  to  Add  I  Conclude  &  Am 
Mass.  Arch.  52,  314.  Yr  Hon"  Obedient  Humble  Serv'. 

Edmund  Mountfort. 

•  Aggamoggin  (Strait  at  Deer  Isle).    See  article  by  William  Willis,  cm  the  Language  of 
the  Abuaquies,  Coll.  Maine  Hist.  Society,  iv.,  104. 
VOL.    XLVIII.  17* 


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186        Letters  of  Col.  Thomas  Westbrook  and  others.        [April, 

Falmouth  March  ye  3,  1725-6. 

May  it  please  your  Honour,  ye  26  of  february  theire  came  in  fourteen 
Indeus  to  S'  Georges  and  -brought  the  express  which  accompanyes  this, 
and  I  as  soon  as  posibel  brought  it  to  falmoth,  but,  through  some  Difficulty, 
for  wee  drew  our  boate  ten  miles  on  yc  Ice.  for  I  was  obliged  to  make  our 
number  of  men  smaller  by  reason  of  our  Stores  being  spent.  Wee  have  not 
had  anything  but  bread  above  this  month  and  but  little  of  that,  for  we  depend- 
ed on  Capt.  .Saunders  and  he  being  disappointed  Capt.  Gyles  sent  his  Leu',  to 
take  charge  of  the  garison,  but  I  thought  it  not  proper  to  deliuer  it  by 
reason  of  so  much  Ice  iu  ye  river  that  I  could  not  bring  of  ye  men  and  ray 
things.  I  hope  it  will  not  be  long  before  Capt.  Gyles  will  bee  dowu  with 
ye  sloope,  and  I  shall  deliuer  ye  Garison  to  his  sattisiaxshon  and  shall  hasen 
to  Boston  to  waitt  upon  your  Honour. 

I  am  your  Honours  most  humble  and 
obedient  Servant  att  Command, 

Muss.  Arch.  52,  314.  William  Caned y. 


Letter  to  the  Lords  of  Trade  &c. 
March  25  [1726?] 
My  Lords, 

Some  few  Months  after  the  Departure  of  his  Excy  Governor  Shute 
for  G'.  Britain  I  did  myself  the  Hon'  to  write  to  yrr  L'Jps  Giving  you  some 
Ace1  of  the  Difficulties  of  this  Province  with  Respect  to  the  lad.  War, 
which  has  bin  [injeited  by  the  Governr.  of  Canada,  who  has  supplied  the 
Salvages -with  all  Stores  of  War  &  has  shelter'd  them  within  his  Governm* 
from  our  Pursuits,  &  has  received  them  in  Triumph  with  the  Scalps  of  his 
Majesties  Subjects  slain  by  this  barbarous  Enemy:  Wch  conduct  of  the 
said  French  Govr  (as  I  suggested  to  your  Lordships  in  my  former  Letter 
seems  to  me  to  be  a  notorious  Violation  of  the  Treaty  of  Utreicht,  and  in 
some  Respects  makes  the  War  with  the  Indians  more  difficult  than  if  the 
French  were  our  declared  Enemies;  For  by  our  Successes  in  the  last  eight 
Months  We  have  driven  them  from  their  Settlem"  in  our  Neighbourhood  to 
the  French  Territories  from  whence  they  make  their  Incursions  upon  us  in 
small  sculking  Parties  &  after  Mischief  done  retire  thither  again,  where  I 
am  cautious  of  allowing  any  of  our  Companies  to  pursue  them  till  I  can 
know  his  Majesties  Pleasure  in  this  Respect.  And  I  must  further  inform 
your  Lordships  That  notwithstanding  the  advantages  we  have  lately  had  over 
the  Enemy,  and  the  Distress  &  Circumstances  We  suppose  they  are  reduced 
to,  The  Expence  of  the  War  is  so  great  &  insupportable  to  this  Province  that 
Unless  it  shall  Please  God  to  put  a  speedy  End  to  it.  It  will  inevitably 
ruine  us  ;  wch  I  humbly  offer  to  your  Lordships  Consideration  that  you 
would  please  to  make  such  a  Representation  thereof  to  his  Majesty  as  you 
shall  think  necessary  for  His  Majea'-V  [to]  know  [for]  the  Safety  &  protec- 
tion of  these  His  Provinces. 

I  should  not  trouble  your  Ld!ships  any  farther  but  that  the  French  Gov- 
ern1, of  Canada  has  given  me  to  understand  that  Hee  shall  Address  a  Com- 
plaint to  His  Master  on  the  Acc°  of  the  Death  of  a  Priest  who  was  killed 
by  our  Forces  in  the  Fight  at  Xorrigawalk  of  wch  please  to  take  ye  follow- 
ing account.  In  the  Action  at  Norridgewock,  within  this  Province.  wch 
was  in  Aug*  last,  our  Forces  destroy'd  a  great  number  of  the  Indians  & 
broke  up  that  Settlement,  among  whome  was  Sebastian  Ralle  a  J<r^uit  & 
Missionary  to  that  Tribe,  and  the  great  Incendiary  of  this  War,  who  wa3 


1804.]     Letters  of  Col.  Thomas  Westbrooh  and  others.  187 

slain  in  Fight,  Making  actual  Resistance  to  the  Forces,  at  the  same  time 
attempting  to  kill  an  English  Captive  in  his  Hand  and  refusing  to  give 
or  titke  Quarter,  To  which  Ace'  of  ye  Death  of  the  sd  Raile  Coll.  Harinan, 
the  Commander  of  the  Forces  at  Norridgewock  made  solemn  Oath  before 
me  in  Council,  As  appears  to  y"  Ldap3  by  the  Minutes  of  Council  trans- 
mitted to  you  by  the  Secry  of  the  Prov.  *  This  Jesuit  had  all  almg 
pushed  the  Indians  upon  their  rebellions  Marching  at  the  Head  of  Two 
Hundred  arm'd  Salvages  through  one  of  the  Frontier  Towns  of  this 
Province,  before  the  War  was  declared,  threatening  Destruction  to  them  If 
they  did  not  speedily  quit  the  said  Town,  Of  all  wcla  &  more  to  ye  purpose 
His  Excy.  Govr  Shute  is  well  knowing.  This  I  thought  proper  to  hint  to 
y"  LoVd'shtpps  in  Order  to  obviate  any  Complaints  that  may  be  made  by 
the  French  Gov',  whose  Conduct  in  Exciting  &  Supporting  the  Indians  iu 
this  "War  &  Drawing  down  many  remote  Tribes,  with  whom  We  have  no 
Concern,  to  their  Assistance,  ye  truths  of  which  I  have  sufficient  Testimon- 
ies to  support  aid  shall  lay  them  before  yrr  Lordship,  If  it  be  necessary,  for 
yrr  Satisfaction  Should  rather  have  put  Him  upon  offering  an  apology 
then  a  Complaint,  all  which  I  humbly  Submit  to  your  Ldshipps,  &  am  with 
the  greatest  respects  ye  Lord=hip[s]  Most  Obed'  &  humble  serv' 

Mass.  Arch.  52.  317,  318.  D[ummer]. 

[The  action  of  the  Massachusetts  Council  on  this  subject,  at  an  earlier 
date,  to  which  allusion  is  made  by  Gov.  Du miner,  may  properly  be  inserted 
here,  copied  from  the  Council  Records,  volume  8,  pages  71,  72. J 

At  a  Council  held  at  the  Couucil  Chamber,  in  Boston,  on  Saturday, 
August  22,  1724. 

Present 
His  Honour  "Wni  Duramer  Esq',  Lt  Govr. 
Penn  Townsend,  Add.  Davenport,  Adam  Winthrop, 

Natli1  Byfield  Esqr3,  John  Clark  Esq",  Daniel  Oliver  Esq", 

Edwd  Bromfield,  Thomas  Fitch,  Thomas  Palmer. 

Captain  Johnson  Harman  being  arrived  from  the  Eastward  with  twenty 
seven  Indian  Scalps,  together  with  the  scalp  of  Sebastian  Ralie,  the  Jesuit 
and  Missionary  among  the  Norridgewock  Indians,  and  the 
Standard  of  ye  sd  Tribe  of  Indians."  was  directed  to  attend  in    Account  of  Capt» 
i~i  •>      .      i     i  i  -s.-  •  <•  i  •      ,r        i      .       Herman's  Action 

Council,  Ami  there  gave  a  short  .Narrative  ot  his  March  to    at  N'urridgewook. 

Norridgewock  (with  four  companies  of  Soldiers  under  his 
command)  &  of  his  Action  at  the  sd  Place,  the  twelvth  instant,  where  he 
destroyed  a  great  number  of  the   enemy,   many   of  whom   being  slain   or 
drown'd  in  the  River,  he  could  not  recover  their  bodies. 

His  Honour  the  Lieut'  Governour,  in  consideration  of  the 
extraordinary  Service  of  the  sd  Captain  Harman,   presented    Capt»  Harman 
him  with  a  Commission  for  Lieuts  Colonel  of   His  Majestys   coiouei!euC3 
Forces   Eastward   uuder   the    Command  of  Coll0   Thomas 
"Westbrook. 

Coll.  Johnson  Harman  made  solemn  oath  that  the  Twenty 
seven  Scalps  above  ment'd  (which  were  produced  iu  Coun-   sworn  as  to  27 
cil)  were  the  Scalps  of  Rebel  or  enemy  Indians  slain  by  him    Seal?*  of  the  in- 

j    i       l-<  i      i  •    r\  ill         i        i     j      i  rtiau  nftemyayia 

and  the  forces  under  his  Command,  and  that  they  had  taken    four  Prisoners. 

Four  Indian  Prisoners. 

•The  Flinch  srovernor  and  others,  who  had  taken  sides  with  the  Indians,  alleged  that 
Ralle's  death  was  contrary  to  the  amity  between  the  two  n  itions,  the  French  and  English, 
and  that  eiuclty  had  been  u-eJ  towards  him  ;  whereas  R-.ile  was  "  slain  in  this  Province," 
says  Gov.  Dummer,  "fighting  against  his  il<  jetties  subjects." 


188  -  The  Snow  Genealogy.  [April, 

Pursuant  to  the  Act,  entituled  an  Act  to  encourage  the  prosecution  of 
the  Indian  Enemy  &  Rebels. 

Advised  &  consented  that  a  "Warr*  he  made  out  to  the 
y.4rfm"°W'd  f°r  Treasurer,  to  pay  unto  the  said  Coll.  Johnson  Harman.  the 
sum  of  Four  Hundred  &  five  pounds  for  Twenty  seven  In- 
dian Scalps,  &  the  further  sum  of  Twenty  pounds  for  four  Indian  Prisoners 
elain  &  taken  as  aforesaid;  the  said  sum  to  be  by  him  distributed  to  the 
Officers  and  Soldiers  concern'd  therein,  as  the  said  Act  directs. 

Coll0  Johnson  flarman  likewise  made  oath  that  the  other 
Coll.  Harman  Scalp  was  the  Scalp  of  Sebastian  Ralle,  a  Jesuit,  who  ap- 
JeeuU's  Scalp!6  P^ared  at  the  Head  of  the  Indians  and  obstinately  resisted 
the  Forces,  wounding  sev11  of  the  English  *5b  resolutely  re- 
fusing to  give  or  take  Quarter. 
ofr'SAl'm6  Pursuant  therefore  to  a  Resolve  of  the  General  Assem- 
bly to  encoumge    b]v,  pass'd  at  their  Session  begun  &  held  the  13th  of  July 

y  bring?  Sebus-        , --./V  ,,  i     e  ,,        -          ■   .  J 

tian  Kaile.  1/20,  in  the  words  following,  VIZ. 

"This  Court  being  credibly  informed  that  3Ionsr  Ralle  the  Jesuit  residing 
among  the  Eastern  Indians  has  not  only  on  several  occasions  of  late 
affronted  ilis  Alajestys  Governmen'  of  this  Province  but  has  also  been  the 
Incendiary  that  has  instigated  and  stirred  up  those  Indians  to  treat  his 
Majestys  subjects  settling  there  in  the  abusive,  insolent,  hostile  manner 
that  they  have  done,  Resolved  that  a  Premium  of  One  Hundred  pounds  be 
allowed  and  paid  out  of  the  Public  Treasury  to  any  person  that  shall  ap- 
prehend the  sd  Jesuit  within  any  part  of  this  Province  &  bring  him  to 
Boston  &  render  him  to  Justice." 

£ioo  to  Coll.  irar-  Advised  &  consented  that  a  Warr1  be  made  out  to  the 
man  &c.  for  Seb.  Treasurer  to  pay  unto  the  said  Coli0  Johnson  Harman  the 
above  sd  sum  of  One  Hundred  pounds  for  his  service  in  the 
destruction  of  the  sd  Sebastian  Ralle,*  the  sd  sum  to  be  divided  among  the 
Officers  &  Soldiers,  as  is  directed  in  the  Act  for  encouraging  the  Prosecu- 
tion of  ye  Indian  enemy  &c. 

[To  be  continued.} 


THE  SXOW  GENEALOGY. 

By  Mrs.  Charles  L.  Aldex,  of  Troy,  N.  Y. 
[Continued  from  page  73.] 


13.  Anne3  Snow  [Mark,2  Nicholas1),  son  of  Mark  Snow  and  Jane  (Prence) 
Snow,  born  in  Eastharn,  July  7,  1656;  married  Oct.  14,  1684, 
Eldad  Atwood,  son  of  Stephen  and  Abigail  (Dunham)  Atwood,  born 
probably  about  1651,  and  died  1715.     Children,  born  in  Eastharn: 

i.        Mary4  Atwood,  b.  Xov.  4,  1634. 

ii.       John4  Atwood,  b.  Ausr.  10,  1G86;  m.  Thankful  "Williamson,  Sept. 

15,  1721,  and  had  (1)   William,1'  b.  April  14.  1721;  (2)  Mary,  b.  Oct. 

28, 1723 ;  (3)  John,  b.  Sept.  25,  1725  ;  (4)  Thankful,  b.  May  28,  1727  ; 

(5)  Ephraim,  b.  March  9,  1728;  (6)    Timothy,  "b.  July  5,  1731;   (7) 

•  See  more  in  regard  to  Father  Rale  or  Ralle,  Register,  xlvi.,  26, 136-139,  226-228,  3o\5 ; 
xlvii.,  377,  483. 


189-1.]  ,  The  Snow  Genealogy.  189 

Simeon,  b.  Nov.  3.  1733.  (2)  Mary*  Atwood  married  Richard  At- 
wood. Oct.  22.  174-8.  Ho  was  son  of  E'.eazur  and  Joanna  Strout. 
b.  March  31.  1717.  They  hail  Mary6  Atwood,  b.  at  Eastham,  Aug. 
16,  1749;  m.  1st,  John  Thompson:  2d.  George  Brooks:  3d,  Mark 
Hatch.  Her  sou  James7  Brooks,  b.  Oct.  14.  1789,  lived  in  Orring- 
ton,  Me.;  m.  Elizabeth  Rartlett,  and  had  Rose.8  the  youngest  of 
thirteen  children,  m.  Joseph  W.  Porter  of  Bangor.  Maine,  May  4, 
1877. 

iii.      Anna4  Atwood,  b.  Jan.,  1T..S7-S. 

iv.  Deboeah4  Atwood,  b.  March,  1690;  perhaps  married  in  Eastham, 
Jan.  G,  1725-6,  Seth  Rvder,  and  had  (1)  Deborah  Ryder,  b.  Aug.  6. 
1727  ;  (2)  Mary  Ryder, 'h.  Ana.  6,  1735.    (Register,  1852,  page 235.) 

v.       Sarah*  Atwood,  b.  April,  1692. 

vi.      Eldad4  Atwood,  b.  July  9,  1695. 

vii.     Ebenezer4  Atwood,  b.  March,  1697-8. 

viii.   Benjamin4  Atwood,  b.  June,  1701. 

13a.  Mary3  Snow  (Mark?  Nicholas1),  daughter  of  Mark  Snow  and  Jane 
(Prence)  Snow,  born  in  Eastham,  Nov.  30,  1661  ;  married  William3 
Niekerson,  son  of  Nicholas2  Nickerson  (William1),  Jan.  22,  1690.* 
They  had: 

i.        Mary4  Nickerson.  b.  March  17,  1692;  d.  yonng. 

ii.       Nicholas4  Nickerson,  b.  March  19,  1693. 

[Freeman's  Hist,  of  Cape  Cod  calls  third  child 

iii.  "William*  Nickerson,  but  Mr.  Josiah  Paine  says  he  is  not  on  the 
records.] 

iv.  Ebenkzer*  Nickerson,  b.  June  13, 1697 ;  m.  Elizabeth  Mayo  of  Chat- 
ham, Mass.  He  was  of  Harwich,  and  had  (1)  Mary,  Aug.  3,  1727; 
(2)  Hannah,  1728;  (3)  Mary,  1730;  (4)  Elizabeth,  1732;  (5)  Seth, 
Oct.  21,  1737;   (61  Xathan,  Nov.  22,  1739. 

v.  Jane4  Nickerson,  b.  April  6,  1699 ;  remembered  in  her  grandmother's 
will  by  Jane  (Prence)  Snow. 

vi.      Mary4  Nickerson,  b.  Aug.,  1701. 

vii.  Thankful4  Nickerson,  b".  July  26,  1705;  perhaps  the  one  who  mar- 
ried Benjamen  Bangs  in  1737. 

14.  Nicholas3  Snow  (Mark,2  Nicholas1),  son  of  Mark  and  Jane  (Prence) 
Snow,  born  in  Eastham.  Dec.  6.  1663,  and  died  in  Rochester,  Mass.. 
probably  in  1754.  He  removed  to  Harwich  in  1706.  Captain 
Jonathan  Bangs,  John  Freeman.  Thomas  Freeman,  John  Grey  and 
Nicholas  Snow  ••  having  been  appointed  to  settle  the  bounds  between 
this  town  (Harwich)  and  Eastham — '  the  matter  being  in  contro- 
versy,' and  having  been  joined  by  Samuel  Knoyies,  Samuel  Mayo 
&  Joshua  Doaue  on  the  part  of  Eastham,  the  matter  was  amicably 
arranged,  &  to  the  agreement  were  affixed  the  signatures  &  seals  of 
the  agents,  the  16  day  of  October  in  the  4th  year  of  ttie  reign  of  our 
gracious  Lady  Queen  Anne."  On  March  14,  1714,  he  was  chosen 
proprietors'  clerk,  and  was  also  chosen  one  of  the  persons  to  divide 
the  lands  of  Harwich.  He  removed  to  Rochester  near  1729,  and 
was  one  of  the  proprietors  there.  Snow  Pond  was  named  after  him, 
and  his  homestead  was  on  its  banks. 

He  married  Lydia  Shaw,  daughter  of  Jonathan  and  Phebe  (Wat- 
son) Shaw,  on  the  4  April,  KvS(J.  In  taking  a  hasty  abstract  of  his 
will  from  Bk.  13,  page  304,  Plymouth  Probate  Records,  I  did  not 
notice  the  name  of  his  wife — so  infer  she  died  before  him — or  the 
name  of  his  sou  Mark,  but  as  the  estate  was  divided  into  eight  parts. 

*  When  I  sent  Mark'  Spot's  family  to  the  Register  in  January,  1S93,  1  did  not  know 
of  the  marriage  of  his  daughter  Mary*,  and  so  insert  her  family  here. 


") 


190  JRev.  William  Adams.  [April, 

I  think  he  must  have  been  alive.  He  first  gives  to  grandson  Joshua 
£25;  to  infant  granddaughter,  daughter  of  my  daughter  Pliebe  Burge 
deceased,  £15  6.  6.  The  rest  of  the  estate  is  divided  into  eight 
parts. 

Eldest  son  Jonathan. 

Son  Nathaniel. 

Children  of  Joshua.     Grandson  Joshua  to  have  §  &  Mary  4-  of  |th. 

To  son  Prince's  children.     Joseph  to  have  }  of  {,  Mary  £  of  £  & 
Hannah  £  of  £. 

To  Thankful  Burge. 

To  Sarah  Hammond. 

To  Granddaughter  Phebe  Burge. 

To  Prince  Snow   1  shilling  "  because  of  his  leaving  me  and  hi3 
family  as  he  did." 

Jouathan  &  Nath'I  executors. 

Admitted  to  Probate  1754. 
Dated  1751. 

Children : 

43.  i.        Jonathan,4  b.  Jan.  30,  1691-2. 

ii.  Makk,  b.  April  3,  1695.  Probably  the  "  Mark  Snow  of  Eastham  & 
Sarah  Lamjford  of  Boston,"  who  married  by  "  License  from  Lieut. 
Gov.  Wentwortb,"  '•  At  Hampden  Falls,  New  Hampshire,  by  Rev. 
Theophilus  Cotton,  22  December,  1725."  I  would  like  to  know 
more  of  this  family.  There  were  Snows  in  New  Hampshire  a  little 
later,  with  raanv  Mark  Snows  among  them. 

Nathaniel,  b.  Oct.  16,  1697. 

Joshua,  b.  Aug.  9  or  18,  1700. 

Thankful,  b.  Feb.  17,  1702. 

Sarah,  b.  March  30,  1703-4. 

Phebe,  b.  Nov.  7,  1705.  The  Burgess  Genealogy  says :  "  Zacheus 
Burgess,  son  of  Jacob  and  Mary  (Hunt)  Burgess,  was  born  March 
9,  1705  :  m.  1st,  Temperance,  who  died  Dec.  8,  1748,  and  had  Jo- 
siah,  1730  ;  Ruth  :  Thomas,  b.  May  23, 1741 ;  Elisha,  b.  1743  ;  Jedidah, 
b.  1745 ;  Mary.  He  married  2d,  Phebe  Snow,  daughter  of  Nicholas 
Snow,  and  had  Phehei.  He  married  3d,  Joanna  Barrows,  July  23, 
1752." 
48.  viii.   Phence,  b.  Dec.  26,  1707. 

[To  be  continued.] 


44. 

iii. 

45. 

iv.' 

46. 

v. 

47. 

VI. 

vii. 

EEV.   WILLIAM  ADAMS   OF   MADISOX   SQUARE 

CHURCH,  NEW  YORK  CITY, 

WITH   HIS  ADAMS  AND  BRADFORD  LINES  OF  DESCENT. 

By  Emily  Wildee  Leavitt,  of  Boston. 

The  Adams  Line. 
1.  Henry*  Adams  is  said  to  have  come  to  New  England  about  the  year 
1634,  and  in  February,  1641,  he  received  a  grant  of  forty  acres  of 
land  in  Braintree,  Mass.,  from  the  town  of  Boston,  of  which  it  then 
was  a  part.  In  the  petition  for  the  formation  of  the  first  church  in 
Braintree,  we  find  the  names  of  Henry  Adams,  Thomas  Adams, 
Henry  Adams,  Jr.,  John  Adams,  Christopher  Adams  and  Samuel 


f  ,1 


1894.]  ,       Rev.   William  Adams.  191 

Adams.     Henry  Adatns,  Sen.  died  October  6,   1646;  his  will  was 
probated  8,  4,  1647 ;  his  children  (so  far  as  definitely  known)  were: 

i.        Henry.2  iv.      Jonathan.  vii.     Josef-h. 

ii.       Thomas.  2.  v.       Peter.  viii.   Edward. 

iii.      Samuel.  vi.     John. 

ix.  Ursula,  who  was  mentioned  in  his  will. 

2.  Peter*  Adams.     In  his  will  of  1646.  Henry  Adams  mentions  his  sou 

Peter;  in  1652,  Peter  Adams  with  his  wife  and  son  John  appeared 
at  Medfield,  Mass.,  where,  in  1652,  he  is  recorded  as  having  a  family 
of  three  persons.  In  the  Indian  raid  of  1675  his  house  was  burned, 
and  he  was  one  of  the  signers  of  a  petition  to  the  Great  and  General 
Court  for  aid.  He  died  in  1630.  and  the  inventory  of  his  estate  was 
taken  October  23,  1690.  His  children  were: 
3.  i.        John.3 

ii.       Peter,  b.  April,  1653. 

iii.      Hannah,  b.  June  16,  1655. 

iv.      Mary,  b.  March  1,  16G1. 

v.       Jonathan,  b.  July  11.  1GC3;  d.  May  15,  1664.. 

vi.      RUTH,  b.  June  20,"  16*35. 

vii.    Joseph,  b.  August  25,  16GS. 

viii.   Samuel,  b.  April  2,  1671, 

ix.      Henry,  b.  January  6,  1673. 

3.  John3  Adams,  son  of  Peter  and  Rachel  Adams,  was  brought  to  Med- 

field when  a  boy.  The  first  mention  of  his  name  on  the  town  books 
was  his  appointment  to  the  office  of  M  hog-reave  "  in  1686.  This 
needful- but  rather  undesirable  office  was  as  a  joke  usually  given  by 
the  towns-people  to  the  newly  married  man,  and  here  serves  as  the 
first  point  of  identification  of  this  John  Adams,  as  lie  was  married  ia 
1685.  From  this  time  he  is  always  recorded  as  "John  son  of  Peter  • 
Adams,"  to  distinguish  him  from  his  two  cousins  of  the  same  given 
name  who  were  holding  offices  at  the  same  periods,  namely,  John 
Adams  the  Miller  (son  of  Henry  Adams),  and  John  Adams  the 
cordwainer  (sou  of  Edward  Adams).  As  his  occupation  was  never 
mentioned  he  was  probably  a  yeoman  or  husbandman.  In  1692 
John  Adams  of  Medfield  sold  to  Robert  Harrington  of  Watertown, 
Mass.,  six  acres  of  land  in  >Yatertown  butted  by  the  land  of  Richard 
Bloyce,  and  his  wife  Michal  Adams  relinquishes  her  right  of  dower. 
In  Canterbury,  Conn,  town  books,  vol.  2,  page  21,  John  Adams 
of  Medfield,  Mass.,  on  December  8.  1708,  bought  four  hundred  acres 
of  land  at  Canterbury  of  William  Johnson  (one  of  the  first  proprie- 
tors ,of  the  place).  March  16,  1718,  the  town  of  Canterbury  con- 
firmed to  John  Adams  and  to  Samuel  Adams,  Jr.  (his  son),  three 
hundred  acres  of  land  by  Rowland's  Brook,  the  bounds  beginning 
at  a  heap  of  stones  on  the  top  of  the  hill  on  the  west  side,  ran  by 
Paine's  land  and  that  of  Eleazar  Brown  ;  and  another  parcel  of  forty 
acres  of  land.  John  and  Samuel  Adams  being  settled  inhabitants 
by  the  vote  of  the  inhabitants  of  the  town  June  15,  1718.  In  April 
30,  1723,  John  Adams  received  one  and  a  half  shares  in  the  common 
and  undivided  lands. 

March   10,  1720,  Joseph  Adams  of  Medfield,  Mass.,  bought  of 

John   Cady  secundus,  a  mansion  house  and  eighty  acres  of  land  in 

Canterbury.     This  was  a  brother  of  John,   who  was  then  settled  in 

*  that  town.     March  12,  1720,  John  Adams  deeded  to  his  son  Richard 


192  Rev.   William  Adams.  [April, 

land  by  that  which  he  had  before  given  to  his  son  Isaac,  which  he 
had  previously  purchased  of  William  Johnson.  Ou  the  same  day  he 
deeded  land  to  his  other  son,  John  Adams.  Jr. 

John  Adams  married  at  Medfield,  Mass.,  April  2,  16*95;  Michal, 
daughter  of  Richard  and  Michal  (Jennison)  Bloyse.  also  spelled 
Blo)ce  and  Bloice,  of  Watertown,  Mass.     They  had  children: 

i.  Samuel,4  b.  February  25,  1685. 

ii.  Marie,  b.  March  11,  1GS7. 

iii.  Patience,  b.  March  21,  1090;  d.  May  28,  1C98. 

iv.  Item,  b.  December  10,  1091. 

v.  Josiaii,  b.  October  4.  1093. 

4.  vi.  Joun,  b.  December  14,  1095. 

vii.  Isaac,  b.  January  30.  1097. 

viii.  IviCHAiii/.  b.  September  28,  1699. 

ix.  Joshua,  b.  July  22,  1701;  d.  April  1,  170G. 

x.  Abigail,  b.  April  23,  1703:  d.  May  14,  1706. 

xi.  B«thia,  b.  February  8.  1704-5:  d,  April  15,  1706. 

xii.  Mktial  (son),  b.  March  1,  1700-7. 

All  these  births  are  recorded  at  MedSeld,  Mass. 

This  John  Adams's  will  was  drawn  February  14,  1724;  in  it  lie 
provides  for  his  wife  Michal  and  for  his  daughter  Mary,  who  was 
to  live  with  her  mother;  he  gave  his  son  Samuel  a  quarter  part  of 
his  ''  wearing  clothes  "  ;  leaves  to  his  three  sons  "  who  now  live  with 
me  "  his  home  lot  to  be  equally  divided  between  them,  which  lot  is 
bounded  south  by  *  my  sou  Richard  Adams's  land,  west  by  my  son 
Samuel's  laud,  east  by  the  hundred  acres  I  purchased  of  William 
Johnson;  also  three  fourths  of  the  forty  acres  more  lying  northwest 
of  the  said  home  lot  which  I  bought  of  William  Johnson  and  Mr. 
Paine  for  the  convenience  of  a  saw  mill.  To  my  cozen  (i.e.  niece) 
Ruth  Adams  who  now  lives  with  me,  five  pounds  provided  she  con- 
tinues to  live  with  my  wife  during  the  whole  time,"  that  is  during 
her  minority;  he  also  mentioned  his  daughter  Ruth  Paine  and  his 
youngest  son  Michal  Adams. 

John  Adams  died  February  2G,  1724;  his  widow  Michal  Adams 
died  April  14,  1752.  The  settlement  of  his  estate  is  recorded  in  the 
Canterbury  books,  vol.  5,  page  393,  where  we  read:  "  Whereas  Mr. 
John  Adams  of  Canterbury  late  deceased,  died  seized  of  about  one 
hundred  acres  of  land  bounded  by  that  of  Isaac  Adams  on  the  north, 
west  by  the  land  of  the  heirs  of  Mr.  John  Adams,  east  by  the  laud 
of  Elisha  Paine,  and  John  Adams  gave  the  said  land  to  his  four 
sons  Samuel,  John,  Isaac  and  Richard,  who  were  the  then  surviving 
sons  of  the  said  John  Adams,  and  the  said  heirs  held  the  land  in 
common  until  about  1734,  when  Richard  died  and  left  one  only 
child,  Lucy,  whereupon  she  held  the  land  in  common  with  the  other 
heirs  until  1743,  when  Samuel  died  leaving  only  two  daughters, 
Amy,  late  wife  of  Thomas  Nowling,  dec,  and  Menitable,  late  wife 
of  John  Smith,  dec,  whereupon  his  share  descended  to  these  daugh- 
ters; Mehkable  died  in  17.50  and  left  four  children;  whereupon 
these  heirs  held  the  land  in  common,  it  is  now  desired  to  make  a 
more  natural  division,  etc." 

4.  John4  Adams,  son  of  John  and  Michal  (Bloyce)  Adams,  born  at  Med- 
field, Mass.,  in  IGdo,  seems  to  have  resided  quietly  on  the  large 
estate  which  his  father  had  bought  in  Canterbury  all  the  earlier 


1894.]  ,  Rev.   William  Adams.  193 

years  of  his  life,  and  it  is  not  until  the  father  was  advanced  in  years 
that  the  children  began  to  have  any  public  mention.  As  one  of  the 
patriarchal  families  of  the  olden  times,  they  appear  to  have  lived  in 
one  community  and  to  have  cultivated  the  lauds  together.  March 
12,  1728,  the  elder  John,  the  first  of  that  given  name  in  the  town, 
made  over  to  his  son  John,  then  ahout  twenty-eight  years  old,  fifty 
acres  of  the  land  "  together  with  one  quarter  part  of  the  land  which 
1  bought  of  William  Johnson."  This  was  near  the  close  of  the 
father's  life,  and  the  brothers  went  quietly  on  their  way ;  Samuel  and 
Richard  marrying  and  then  dying  young,  leaving  only  daughters; 
Isaac  marrying  and  then  removing  from  the  town;  so,  in  1752,  when 
the  final  settlement  of  the  whole  estate  was  made,  there  was  the  one 
only  son  John  left  "on  the  old  place,"  as  country  people  always 
term  the  original  homestead.  This  John  Adams's  life  is  wholly 
made  known  to  us  by  the  few  deeds  which  he  gave  from  time 
to  time.  January  16,  1752,  Isaac  Adams  of  Canaan,  Litchfield 
county,  Conn.,  makes  over  to  his  brother  John  all  his  rights  given 
by  our  father  John  Adams.  April  17,  1752,  John  and  Abigail  (his 
wife)  Adams  acknowledge  the  receipt  of  a  legacy  from  the  estate  of 
their  father  Josiah  Cleveland  of  Canterbury,  which  had  been  be- 
queathed to  them  in  a  clause  in  his  will  of  December  28,  1750,  in 
which  Josiah  Cleveland  mentions  his  daughter  Abigail  Adams  and 
his  grandson  Benjamin  Brown.  In  1746,  John  and  his  wife  were 
of  the  people  who  formed  the  Separatist  Church  in  Canterbury 
which  gave  rise  to  so  much  dissension  in  that  village.  John  Adams 
was  made  a  member  of  the  early  church  in  174-1,  and  his  wife  Abi- 
gail in  1745.  His  own  will  was  drawn  May  4,  1762,  and  the 
estate  was  administered  that  same  year;  in  it  he  mentions  wife  Abi- 
gail A-dams.  Mrs.  Abigail  Adams's  estate  was  administered  Feb- 
ruary 19,  1782,  and  mention  is  made  of  her  "eldest  son  Benjamin 
Brown." 

In  precisely  what  year  John  Adams  and  the  widow  Abigail 
(Cleveland)  Brown  were  married  has  not  yet  been  ascertained,  but 
the  Canterbury  town  records  give  the  births  of  the  following  chil- 
dren: 

i.  Lois,6  b.  November  17,  1741. 

ii.  Mary,  b.  June  23,  1743. 

5.  iii.  Johx,  b.  February  12,  1744. 

iv.  Lydia,  b.  June  12,  1746. 

v.  Cornelius,  b.  March  21,  1743. 

vi.  Ebenezer,  b.  October  6,  1749. 

rii.  Abigail,  b.  June  13,  1751. 

viii.  Samuel,  b.  May  IB.  1753. 

ix.  Ruth,  b.  March  13,  1757. 

In  a  little  graveyard  in  the  northern  part  of  Canterbury  the 
tombstones  of  both  John  and  Abigail  Adams  have  recently  been 
found:  "  Here  lies  the  body  of  Mr.  John  Adams  who  died  January 
16,  1762-3,  in  his  66th  year."  On  that  of  his  wife  is  inscribed: 
"  Here  lies  the  body  of  Mrs.  Abigail,  wife  of  Mr.  John  Adams  who 
died  December  15,  1782. 

5.  John*  Adams,  son  of  John  and  Abigail  (Cleveland,  Brown)  Adams, 
born  in  Canterbury,  February  12,  1745;  served  in  the  army  during 
the  Revolution  in  the  rank  of  lieutenant,  and  later  was  made  a  cap- 

VOL.    XLVIII.  18 


I 

I 


194  ;  liev.   William  Adams.  [April, 

tain.  He  married  1st,  at  Putney,  Vt.,  October  5,  1769,  Mary, 
daughter  of  Deacon  Joshua  and  Jemima  (Davenport)  Parker,  who 
was  born  at  Needham,  Mass.,  September  23,  1747,  died  at  Canter- 
bury October  11,  1708;  he  married  2d.  November  2,  1802,  widow 
Hannah  Faucet.  lie  died  December  10,  1818.  Children,  all  by 
the  first  wife : 

6.  i.  Jonx,6  b.  September  18.  1772. 

ii.  Joshua,  b.  December  i,  1774. 

iii.  M.utv,  b.  May  27,  1777. 

iv.  Parker,  b.  Slay  6,  1779. 

v.  Abigail,  b.  October  31.  17S1. 

vi.  Anna,  b.  January  2,  17S4. 

vii.  Moses,  b.  September  28,  1786. 

viii.  LrchiiA,  b.  March  20,  1789. 

ix.  Aukklia,  b.  March  10,  1703. 

x.  Charles,  b.  Juue  11,  ll'Jo. 

6.  John6  Adams,  son  of  John  and  Mary  (Parker)  Adams,  born  Septem- 
ber 18,  1772;  was  graduated  at  Plainfield,  Ct.  Academy  1795. 
After  which  he  formed  a  private  school  in  the  north  part  of  Canter- 
bury, and  showed  such  skill  iu  both  management  and  development 
of  his  scholars  as  to  at  once  make  it  a  marked  success.  "In  the 
spriDg  of  1796,  he  was  induced  to  remove  his  school  to  Canterbury 
Green,  where  it  was  immensely  popular.  Canterbury  was  never 
more  flourishing  than  during  the  continuance  of  this  school.  He 
had  in  a  large  degree  the  art  of  calling  out  the  best  in  a  pupil,  and 
awakening  enthusiasm  for  school  studies  and  master;  he  was  espe- 
cially kind  to  indigent  young  men,  and  often  assisted  them  pecu- 
niarily."* 

"  Iu  1S00  he  was  appointed  rector  of  Plainfield.  Conn.  Academy, 
and  in  1803  preceptor  of  Bacon  Academy  of  Colchester,  Conn.;  June, 
1810,  "he  was  chosen  principal  of  Phillips  Academy,  Andover, 
Mass.,  in  which  office  he  continued  twenty-three  years.  In  1833, 
he  resigned  this  position  and  removed  with  some  of  his  family  to  Illi- 
nois, where  he  invested  his  property  in  the  new  lands.  Possessed 
of  a  constitution  of  unusual  soundness,  he  discovered  in  his  seventy- 
second  year  he  had  both  the  power  and  opportunity  of  doing  great 
good.  Always  interested  in  the  young,  he  volunteered  his  services 
for  their  advantage,  and  after  he  had  passed  the  period  allotted  to 
man,  organized  in  the  state  of  his  adoption  several  hundred  Sabbath 
schools,  many  of  which  have  grown  into  churches.  While  resident 
in  Andover  he  took  part  iu  the  organization  of  several  of  the  great 
national  charities.  The  degree  of  LL.D.  was  conferred  on  him  by 
his  alma  mater  in  1854.  His  three  sons  are  graduates  of  Yale  Col- 
lege in  the  classes  of  1821,  1825,  1827.  He  died  in  Jacksonville, 
111.,  April  24,  1863,  in  his  91st  year,  retaining  to  the  last  the  full 
possession  of  his  faculties,  a  sound  judgment  and  a  most  cheerful 
Christian  hope."| 

John  Adams  married  1st,  May  8,  1798,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of 
Gamaliel  and  Judith  (Perkins)  Ripley  who  was  born  March  12, 
1776,  died  February  23,  1829;  he  married  2d,  August  30,  1831, 
Mrs.  Mabel  Burrett;  he  died  April  24,  1863.  His  children,  all  by 
the  first  wife,  were : 

*  Miss  Larnod  in  History  of  Windham  County,  Ct„  vol.  2,  p.  304. 

t  Taken  from  an  Obituary  Record  of  the  Graduates  of  Yale  College  deceased  during 
he  academic  year  ending  July,  1863. 


:>»  »  J 


1804.]  .  Rev.   William  Adams.  195 

i.  Mary.t  b.  April  7,  1709. 

ii.  Gamaliel,  b.  July  2.  1800;  d.  April  29,  1S02. 

iii.  John,  b.  March  20,  1802. 

iv.  Ripley  Perkins,  b.  January  11,  180-1. 

v.  Elizaueth  Ripley,  b.  July  7,  1805. 

7.  vi.  William,  b.  January  25.  1807. 

vii.  Harriet  Hannah,  b.  January  14,  1809. 

viii.  Akby  Ann,  b.  March  10.  1SU. 

ix.  Emily  J.snk.  b.  January  2,  1813. 

x.  Henry,  b.  April  30,  1813;  d.  April   15,  1816. 

xi.  Pikebe  Phillips,  b.  July  24,  1817. 

7.  William7  Adams,  son  of  John  and  Elizabeth  (Ripley)  Adams,  born 
at  Colchester,  Conn.;  was  prepared  for  college  at  Andover  by  his 
father,  and  entered  Yale,  whence  he  was  graduated  1830,  one  of  the 
foremost  among  men  who  have  achieved  high  reputation  as  scholars 
and  divines.  He  returned  to  Andover  and  took  the  theological 
course:  then  was  first  settled  over  a  church  in  Brighton,  Mass.  At 
the  end  of  three  years  he  removed  to  a  pastorate  of  the  Broome 
Street  Presbyterian  Church  in  New  York.  After  nineteen  faithful 
years  of  work,  his  people  built  the  Madison  Square  church,  whither 
they  all  removed. 

Of  a  courtly,  dignified,  graceful  presence,  ready  of  speech,  his 
affable  manners  and  polished  deportment  rendered  him  a  marked 
man  in  all  assemblies.  A  scholar  of  more  than  ordinary  accuracy, 
variety  and  elegance,  he,  more  than  most,  was  called  upon  on  occa- 
sions of  public  interest  in  church  and  state.  In  1873,  he  was  chosen 
to  speak  the  welcome  to  the  American  Evangelical  Alliance,  "  and 
none  of  all  the  thousands  present  will  ever  forget  the  majestic  grace, 
fervor  of  imagery  and  eloquence  of  his  address  of  welcome  to  the 
learning  and  genius  of  the  church  beyond  the  sea;  he  spoke  extem- 
poraneously, but  his  words  were  the  keynote  of  the  whole  series  of 
meetings.''*  He  delivered  the  address  at  the  Centennial  celebration 
at  Lexington,  Mass.;  and  was  one  of  the  few  who  at  their  own 
charge  were  sent  to  ask  of  the  Emperor  of  Russia  liberty  of  worship 
for  the  dissenters  from  the  Greek  church  in  the  Baltic  provinces. 
He  was  made  a  member  of  the  New  York  Historical  Society,  June 
18,  1844.  In  the  spring  of  1874  he  resigned  the  pastorate  of  the 
Madison  Square  church  to  accept  the  presidency  of  the  Union 
Theological  Seminary  of  New  York,  which  he  had  been  instrumen- 
tal in  forming. 

Rev.  William  Adams  married  1st,  July  13,  1831,  Susan  P.,  a 
daughter  of  Thatcher  and  Mary  (Bradshaw)  Magoun  of  Medford, 
Mass.,  who  died  May  22,  1S34;  he  married  2d,  August  12,  1835, 
her  sister,  Martha  Bradshaw  Magoun,  who  was  born  October  17, 
1812,  died  June  13,  1385;  he  died  August  31,  1880.  He  had 
children — 

By  the  first  wife: 
i.        "Wllliam,8  who  was  b.  and  d.  November  24,  1832. 

By  the  second  wife : 

ii.       Thatcher  Magoun,  b.  November  25,  1837;   m.  January  5,  18 — , 
Frances  Robbins. 

•  History  of  New  York,  by  Mrs.  Martha  J.  Lamb,  vol.  ii.  p.  762. 


. 


196  Rev.    William  Adams.  [April, 

ill.      William,  b.  January  31.  1840;    in.  May  14,  18C7,  Helen  Coolidge. 
William  Adams  d.'juiv  14,  1SSS.     They  had  children  : 

1.  Henri/3  Coolidge,  b.  February  9,  1809;  m.  February  7,  1891,  Clara 

Corlies,  and  had — 1.  Dunbar  Wright,  b.  November  15,  1S91;  2. 
Dorothy,  b.  March  2,  1893. 

2.  William,''  b.  March  26,  1870. 

3.  Thatcher.9  b.  March  23.  1874. 

4.  Margaret,*  b.  March  31,  1876. 

5.  John  Brown*  b.  June  19,  1877. 

6.  Thomas  Safford,3  b.  September  11,  1879. 

iv.      Mary  Elizabeth,  b.  May  30,   1842;    m.  November  9,  1864,  John 
Crosby  Brown,  and  had  : 

1.  William  Adams*  b.  December  29,  1885;  m.  March  30,  1892.  Helen 

Gilman  Noyes,  and  had  a  son,  John  Crosby,  b.  December  22, 
1S92. 

2.  Eliza  Coe9  b.  Septembers,  1858;  m.  November  9,  1887,  Edward 

C.  Moore. 

3.  Mary  Magoun,9  b.  December  22,  1869. 

4.  James  Crosby  *  b.  September  28,  1872. 

5.  Thatcher  Magoun,9  b.  March  8,  1876. 

6.  Amy  Brighlhurst9  b.  April  28,  1873. 

v.       Susan  Magoux,  b.  February  28,  1S47 ;  m.  February  8,  1872,  Eugene 
Delano,  and  had : 

1.  William  Adams,  b.  January  21,  1874. 

2.  Martha  Magoun9  b.  July  24,  1875 ;  d.  August  17,  1876. 

3.  Moreau,*  b.  June  14,  1877. 

4.  Caroline,9  b.  May  6,  1879. 

5.  Susan  Magoun,9  b.  March  13,  18S3. 

6.  Eugene9  b.  February  26,  1887. 

vi.      Henry  Stuart,  b.  April  8,  1849 :  d.  October  10,  1852. 


The  Bradford  Line. 

1.  William*  Bradford,  son  of  William1  and  Alice  (Hanson)  Bradford, 
was  born  March,  1588.  His  father  died  in  1591,  when  his  grand- 
father, William  Bradford,  took  him;  but  the  grandfather  died  in 
1596,  and  he  then  went  to  live  with  his  uncle  Robert  Bradford,  who 
resided  in  the  little  village  of  Scrooby,  a  place  five  miles  from  Aus- 
terfield  and  near  the  estate  of  the  Brevrsters,  in  Nottinghamshire. 
He  joined  the  church  where  Rev.  Richard  Clifton  and  Rev.  John 
Robinson  preached,  and  was  soon  numbered  among  the  "  Separatists," 
and  became  a  leader  among  them.  His  early  educational  advan- 
tages were  apparently  very  limited,  but  he  so  applied  himself  to 
study  that  he  became  proficient  in  Dutch,  Latin,  French  and  Greek ; 
he  also  devoted  himself  to  the  study  of  Hebrew,  as  he  desired  to 
read  the  scriptures  in  their  native  tongue. 

He  went  with  the  community  which  migrated  to  Holland,  and 
was  one  of  the  most  influential  amongst  them.  On  coming  of  aae 
he  received  a  considerable  property  from  his  father's  estate,  but  did 
not  succeed  in  some  commercial  undertakings;  he  learned  the  art  of 
"fustian  or  frieze  weaving."  November  15,  1613,  William  Bret- 
foort,  fustian  worker,  a  young  man  from  Osterfeldt,  EDg.,  was  af- 
fianced to  Dorothea  May  from  Witzbutz  (Wisbeach,  Cambridge, 
Eng.).  The  baDns  were  published  in  Leyden,  but  the  marriage  took 
place  elsewhere,  as  on  December  9,  1613,  William  Eretfoort,  aged 
23  years,  was  married  to  Dorothea  May,  aged  16  years,  in  Amster- 
dam, Holland. 


1891.]  '  Rev.   William  Adams.  197 

They  embarked  for  England  July  22,  1620,  and  after  many  mis- 
haps and  troubles,  ou  September  6,  1620,  set  sail  from  Plymouth. 
Eng.,  with  the  first  company  of  Pilgrims  in  the  Mayflower,  and 
reached  Cape  Cod  harbor,  N.  E.,  on  the  following  November. 
"While  they  were  at  anchor,  and  when  he  was  absent  from  the  ves- 
sel, his  wife  Dorothea  fell  overboard  and  was  drowned. 

From  this  time  onwards  William  Bradford's  part  in  the  fortunes 
of  the  community  was  important  and  powerful.  Soon  after  the  first 
governor,  William  Carver,  died,  Bradford  was  elected  to  that  office, 
which  he  held  by  annual  election  until  his  death,  excepting  the 
years  1633,  '34,  '36,  '38  and  '44.  He  took  a  prominent  part  in  all  the 
councils,  which  were  held  at  his  house,  and  iu  all  the  affairs  civic, 
political  and  military  ;  from  his  house  at  the  foot  of  Burial  Hill  each 
Sabbath  morning  the  little  company  of  worshippers,  who  all  assem- 
bled there,  marched  in  procession  up  the  steep  ascent  to  the  fort 
at  its  top,  where  the  religious  services  were  held.  As  he  lived  the 
history  of  the  times  he  wrote  them,  and  this  history,  so  long  missing, 
is  now  that  which  gives  his  posterity  the  best  pictures  of  the  lives 
and  events  of  those  who  so  valiantly  and  bravely  lived  and  died. 

William  Bradford  married  1st,  Dorothy  May,  who  died  December 
9,  1620;  he  married  2d,  Mrs.  Alice,  daughter  of  Alexander  Car- 
penter of  Wrentham,  Eng.,  and  the  widow  of  Edward  Southworth, 
who  died  March  2&,  1670;  he  died  May  9,  1657.  His  children 
were : 

i.  John,3  son  of  his  first  wife,  who  was  of  Duxbory,  1615;  deputy  to 
the  General  Court,  1052;  lieutenant  of  Marshfield,  Mass.,  in  1G33; 
m.  Martha,  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Martha  Bourne  of  Marsh- 
field,  and  then  removed  to  Norwich,  Conn.,  where  he  d.  in  1C78, 
s.p. 

2.  ii.       "William,  b.  January  17,  1624. 

iii.      Mercy,  m.  Benjamin  (or  Joseph)  Vermages, 

iv.  Josephs  b.  1G30;  m.  May  23,  16G4,  Jael,  daughter  of  Kev.  Peter 
Hobart  of  Hingham,  Mass. 

2.  Major  William8  Bradford,  son  of  Governor  William  and  Alice 

(Carpenter,  Southworth)  Bradford,  born  June  16,  1624,  in  Ply- 
mouth, Mass.;  removed  to  Kingston,  Mass.;  he  was  appointed 
Assistant ;  was  deputy  governor ;  one  of  Governor  Andros's  council 
in  1687;  chief  military  officer  of  the  Plymouth  colony.  He  mar- 
ried 1st,  Alice,  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Welthean  Richards  of  Wey- 
mouth, Mass.,  who  died  at  Plymouth,  December  12.  1671  ;  he  mar- 
ried 2d,  the  widow  Wiswell ;  he  married  3d,  Mrs.  Mary,  daughter 
of  Mr.  John  Atwood  of  Plymouth,  and  the  widow  of  Rev.  John 
Holmes  of  Duxbury,  Mass.,  who  died  June  6,  1714—15;  he  died 
February  20,  1793,  aged  74  years.     His  children  were: 

i.  John,4  b.  February  20,  1653. 

ii.  William,  b.  March  11,  1C55. 

iii.  Thomas.  vii.    Mercy. 

iv.  Samuel.  viii.   Meletlvh. 

v.  Alice.  ix.      Mary. 

3.  vi.  Hannah.  x.       Sarah. 

3.  Hannah*  Bradford,  daughter  of  Major  William  and  Alice  (Richards) 

Bradford,  who  was  born  in  Kingston,  Mass.,  iu  1661-2  ;  married 
Joshua  Ripley,  a  grandson  of  William  Ripley  who  with  his  wife 
and  four  children  came  from  Hingham,  County  Norwich,  Eng.,  to 

VOL.  XLVIII.  18* 


xi. 

Joseph. 

xii. 

Israel. 

xiii. 

David. 

xiv. 

Ephraeu. 

XV. 

Hezekiah. 

. 


tjx  .aoT 


198  Rev.   William  Adams.  [April, 

Hingham,  Mass.,  in  ]  G33.  His  son  John  married  Elizabeth,  daugh- 
ter of  Rev.  Peter  Ilobart  of  Hingham,  and  their  son  Joshua,  with 
his  wife  Hannah  Bradford.  lived  in  Hingham  until  16S9,  when  they 
went  to  Norwich,  Conn.,  whence  they  removed  to  the  upper  part  of 
that  state,  where  he  bought  of  Isaac  Magoun,  the  first  settler,  sixty 
acres  of  land  on  both  sides  of  Merrick's  Brook.  The  first  town 
meeting  of  Windham  was  held  June  11,  1092,  when  Joshua  Ripley 
was  appointed  town  clerk ;  he  was  also  town  treasurer.  "  He  was 
a  man  widely  known  and  respected,  as  of  sterling  sense  and  judg- 
ment; he  was  one  of  the  first  justices  of  the  peace  in  Connecticut, 
and  was  appointed  May,  1698,  when  that  office  was  first  instituted; 
was  the  first  representative  sent  by  Windham  to  the  General  Assem- 
bly, appearing  there  May,  1699."  He  was  also  one  of  the  seven 
pillars  or  counsellors,  and  justice  of  the  quorum  in  1726.  His  wife 
was  "a  noble  and  useful  woman,  remarkable  not  only  for  intelli- 
gence and  accomplishments,  but  for  her  skill  in  the  art  of  healino-. 
She  was  the  first,  and  for  a  long  time  the  only  physician  in  the  sel- 
lement,  and  it  is  said  that  the  first  male  physician,  Dr.  Richard 
Huntington,  received  much  of  his  medical  knowledge  from  her." 
Joshua  Ripley  married  November  28,  1682,  Hannah  Bradford,  and 
their  children  were : 

i.  Alice  Ripley,4  b.  in  Hinsrham,  September  18,  1683. 

ii.  Hannah  Ripley,  b.  in  Hingham,  March  2,  1684-5* 

iii.  Judith  Ripley,  b.  in  Hingham,  October,  1686. 

iv.  Joshua  Ripley,  b.  iu  Hingham,  May  13,  1688. 

v.  Margaret  Ripley,  b.  in  Norwich,  Conn.,  November  4,  1690 

vi.  Leah  Ripley,      ]  .     .         ..*_.« 

vii.  Rachel  Ripley,  |twins;  b-  m  Windham,  Conn.,  Apiil  19,  1693. 

viii.  Hezekiah  Ripley,  b.  in  Windham,  June  10,  1695. 

4.  ix.  David  Ripley,  b.  in  Windham,  May  20,  1697. 

x.  Irene  Ripley,  b.  in  Windnam,  August  28,  1700. 

xi.  Jekusha  Ripley,  )  .    .         ,     .    Trr.    „ 

xii.  Ann  Ripley,         | twins;  b.  in  Windham,  November  1,  1701. 

4.  David*  Riplet,  son  of  Joshua  and  Hannah  (Bradford)  Ripley,  bora 
in  Canterbury,  May  20,  1697;  married  March  21,  1720,  "Lydia, 
daughter  of  Eliezer  and  Lydia  Carv,  who  was  born  March"  24\ 
1705-6,  at  Bristol,  R.  I.,  and  died  April  9,  1784  ;  he  died  February 
16,1781.     They  had  children  : 

i.  Faith,6  b.  May  1,  1722. 

Li.  Lydia,  b.  February  20,  1723-4. 

iii.  Ann,  b.  August  27,  1726. 

iv.  Irene,  b.  February  1,  1727. 

v.  David,  b.  February  7,  1730-1. 

vi.  William,  b.  July  12.  1734. 

vii.  Gamaliel,  b.  April  19,  1736;  d.  May  30,  1739. 

viii.  Alithea,  b.  April  24,  1738. 

5.  ix.  Gamaliel,  b.  October  20,  1740. 

x.  Hezekiah,  b.   February  3,  1742. 

xi.  Bradford,  b.  December  30,  1744. 

xii.  Hannah,  b.  February  23,  1750. 

>.  Gamaliel6  Ripley,  son  of  David  and  Lydia  (Carey)  Ripley,  born 
October  20,  1740;  married  1st,  December  15,  1764,  Elizabeth 
Hebard,  who  died  January  10,  1765;  he  married  2d,  January  23, 
1772,  Judith,  daughter  of  Jacob  and  Jemima  (Leonard)  Perkins, 
who  was  born  April  14  (or  March  2),  1747;  died  July  6.  1803. 
He  died  April  15,  1799.     They  had  children : 


.* 

1894.]  Family  of  Edison,  the  Inventor.  199 


i.  Roswell,6  b.  December  31,  1765. 

iv.  Gamaliel,  b.  February  8,  1774. 

v.  Elizabeth,  b.  March  'IS),  1776. 

vi.  David  Bradford,  b.  April  19,  177S. 

vii.  Zeftianiaii,  h.  October  17,  1779. 

viii,  Lydia,  b.  December  4,  1780. 

ix.  William,  b.  May  27.  1782. 

x.  Jabez  Perkins, *b.  March  23,  178S. 


CONNECTION  OF  THE  FAMILY  OF  EDISON,  THE  IN- 
VENTOR, WITH  DIGBY,  NOVA  SCOTIA. 

By  Judge  A.  W.  Savary,  of  Annapolis  Royal,  Nova  Scotia. 

Among  the  Loyalists  from  New  York  who  settled  in  and  near 
Digby  at  the  close  of  the  Revolutionary  war,  were  quite  a  number 
of  Dutch,  and  some  of  German  extraction.  Among  these  Loyal- 
ists appears  John  Edison,  of  whom,  and  of  Samuel  and  Moses 
Edison  a  little  later,  the  following  records  were  compiled  for  me 
by  the  late  William  H.  Taylor,  clerk  of  the  Vestry  of  Trinity 
Church,  and' town  clerk  of  Digby,  from  the  "Grant  of  confirmation 
of  the  township  of  Digby,"  the  "deed  of  partition  of  the  'Hatfield 
Grant,' "  same  township,  from  town  meeting  records,  and  records  of 
cattle  marks,  and  from  the  records  of  Trinity  Church,  Digby. 

John  Edison  owned  lot  No.  15  in  the  North  Range  of  the  Hat- 
field Grant,  200  acres  ;  No.  49,  Middle  Range,  200  acres ;  and 
half  of  lot  No.  25,  South  Range,  100  acres. — (These  were  wilder- 
ness lots,  five  to  ten  miles  from  the  town  or  village  of  Digby  and 
shore  settlements.)  A  tax  was  levied  Sept.  21,  1789,  to  defray 
the  church  expenses,  and  therein  the  name  of  John  Edison  appears 
without  any  amount  opposite.  Another  tax  was  levied  Dec.  5, 
1796,  in  which  he  was  assessed  53.  6d.  At  a  town  meeting  held 
April  1,  1799,  he  was  appointed  one  of  the  directors  of  the  town 
marsh  at  the  head  of  St.  Mary's  Bay,  and  continued  such  in  1800 
and  1801.  He  was  appointed  assessor  of  poor  rates  at  a  town 
meeting  held  April  4,  1808. 

Samuel  Edison,  grandfather  of  the  inventor,  purchased  the 
possession  of  pew  No.  36  in  Trinity  Church,  Sept.  26,  1792,  and 
in  the  assessment  for  church  expenses  Dec.  5,  1796,  he  was  rated 
23  6J.  He  was  granted  a  sheep  mark  May  3,  1803,  which,  evidently 
because  he  had  removed  away,  was  transferred  to  James  Budd, 
Nov.  3,  1812.  He  was  appointed  overseer  of  the  marsh,  April  4, 
1808. 

Moses  Edison,  at  a  town  meeting  April  6,  1801,  made  an  agree- 
ment to  fence  the  marsh. 


I 


! 
200  r      Family  of  Edison,  the  Inventor.  [April, 

The  first  decade  of  the  century  had  not  closed  before  the  superior 
fertility  of  the  prairie  and  alluvial  soil  of  Upper  Canada  had  begun 
to  attract  the  attention  of  the  struggling  settlers  of  Western  Xova 
Scotia,  and  a  strong  stream  of  migration  from  Digby  and  vicinity 
to  that  laud  of  promise  set  in,  and  flowed  for  many  years.  With 
that  stream  early  went.  Samuel  and  Moses  Edison  :  the  former  taking 
with  him  a  young  family,  among  whom  was  Saimuel  Edison,  Jr., 
the  father  of  the  inventor.  The  latter  became  afterwards  a  resident 
of  Ohio,  in  which  state  Thomas  A.  Edison  was  the  first  of  his  line 
who  was  born  under  the  American  flag. 

The  late  Charles  Budd,  who,  born  in  the  last  century,  long  repre- 
sented Digby  in  the  Xova  Scotia  legislature,  gave  me  approximately 
the  date  of  Samuel's  migration,  corresponding  with  that  of  the 
transfer  of  the  sheep  mark,  and  with  the  result  of  a  published  in- 
terview of  Mrs.  M*  L.  Rayne  with  the  inventors  aged  father,  at 
Port  Huron,  Michigan',  last  summer.  It  was  in  the  year  1811, 
when  the  younger  Samuel  was  8  years  old.  Mr.  Budd  also  in- 
formed me  that  the  first  Samuel's  wife  was  a  Miss  Roop  :  of  a  family 
now  numerous  in  Digby  and  Annapolis  counties,  and  also  claiming 
a  New  York  German  or  Dutch  extraction.  A  descendant  of  this 
family,  Miss  Maria  Roop,  a  clever  newspaper  correspondent,  a  few 
years  ago  married  a  (maritime)  Capt.  Dow  Roop,  of  Xova  Scotia. 
Her  brother  informs  me  that  the  wife  of  Samuel  Edison  was  xVnn, 
half-sister  of  his  father  ;  and  if  so  she  was  dau.  of  Major  Isaac  Roop, 
of  Xew  York  loyalist  forces,  or  X".  S.  Militia.  I  can  find  nothing  on 
the  other  church  records,  registry  of  Probate  or  of  Deeds,  to  verify 
this,  or  to  show  that  John  was  the  father  of  Samuel  and  Moses, 
except  that  he  had  lots  in  the  Hatfield  grant  and  they  had  not.  rais- 
ing the  presumption  that  they  were  under  age  when  the  loyalists 
came  over,  and  that  he  was  head  of  a  family.  There  are  descend- 
ants of  Edison  women  in  Digby,  but  the  only  representatives  of  the 
name  are  colored  people,  descendants  of  a  negro  whom  the  first 
Edison  brought  with  him  from  Xew  York. 

It  is  hard  to  conceive  that  John  Edison,  the  pioneer,  whose  hardy 
hands  felled  the  first  tree,  rooted  out  the  first  stump,  and  guided  the 
plow  that  turned  the  first  furrow  on  those  wild  N  Hatfield  grant "  lots, 
could  ever  have  been  a  "  banker  of  high  standing,"  as  stated  by  Mr. 
Lanier  in  the  December  number  of  the  "Review  of  Reviews,"  nor 
the  son  of  any  such  banker  ;  and  as  tradition  in  unhistorie  American 
families  generally  post-dates  the  advent  of  the  immigrant  ancestor 
to  about  the  third  or  fourth  generation  back,  I  suspect  (notwith- 
standing Mr.  Lanier's  suggestion  of  1730  as  about  the  year  of 
the  immigration  to  America),  that  the  ancestors  of  Edison  from 
the  times  of  the  first  settlement  of  the  Dutch  colony,  have  been, 
like  those  of  many  another  illustrious  American,  worthy  tillers  of 
the  soil,  toiling  in  contented  obscurity,  until  his  genius  shed  a 
peculiar  and  undying  glory  on  the  name. 


1894.]  -Martins  or  Martha's  Vineyard?  201 


MARTIN'S   OR  MARTHA'S? 
What  is  the  proper  nomenclature  of  the  Vineyard? 

"  Martin's  Vineyard some  call  it  Marthaes  Vineyard." 

Whitfidd,   The  Light  Appearing  (1651). 

By  Charles  Edward  Banks,  M.D.,  of  Portland,  Me. 

In  the  Register  many  years  ago  (xii.  33),  the  question  pro- 
pounded in  the  sub-title  of  this  article  was  asked  by  the  Editor  of 
that  volume,  and  as  far  as  known  to  the  writer  it  remains  unan- 
swered. 

Without  any  knowledge  that  this  subject  was  ever  under  discus- 
sion, the  writer  of  this  had  observed  on  an  old  map  of  New  Eng- 
land the  title  Martin's  Vineyard  applied  to  the  ancient  Isle  of 
Capawock,  and  upon  a  desultory  search  to  ascertain  whether  this 
name  had  ever  been  similarly  attached  to  the  Vineyard  by  other 
cartographers,  was  not  able  to  find  upon  any  chart  of  the  seven- 
teenth century,  one  only  excepted,  where  the  topography  and  local 
nomenclature  of  the  coast  became  mutually  intelligible,  that  the 
name  Martha's  Vineyard  had  ever  been  applied  to  the  island  now 
bearing  that  name. 

An  examination  of  contemporary  literature  of  that  period,  printed 
books,  letters,  public  records,  legal  documents,  etc.,  confirmed  this 
curious  fact,  and  as  a  result  of  this  extended  search  the  writer  feels 
safe  in  saying  that  in  the  public  and  private  records  of  the  seven- 
teenth century,  the  name  Martin's  is  applied  to  the  Vineyard,  to 
the  practical  exclusion  of  Martha's,  and  this  phenomen  has  the  re- 
peated sanction  of  Mr.  Thomas  Mayhcw  himself,  the  "  Governor 
and  Lord  of  Capawock,"  in  public  and  private  papers. 

The  records  of  the  Vineyard,  registeries  of  deeds  and  wills  and 
court  books,  as  examined  for  me  by  B.  T.  Hillman,  Esq.,  of  Ed- 
gartown,  do  not  bear  out  this  general  statement  however.  Mr. 
Hillman  writes  to  me  :  "  I  have  examined  a  large  number  of  deeds 
recorded  in  this  volume  (Vol.  I.  Deeds),  and  only  find  one  in 
which  the  name  of  the  island  is  given  as  Martin's  Vineyard.  There 
may  be  others,  for  I  have  not  examined  every  deed  in  the  volume. 
The  name  Martha's  Vineyard  seems  to  have  been  used  both  in  the 
Court  records  and  in  the  Deeds."  I  am  indebted  to  him  for  valu- 
able assistance  in  the  investigation  of  this  subject,  and  in  this  con- 
nection I  might  also  refer  to  his  statement  to  me  in  this  same  letter 
that  the  adjoining  island  is  called  M  Xomans  Land "  in  the  first 
record  of  conveyance,  instead  of  M  Xo  Mans  "  as  sometimes  written. 


baa 


202  __        Martin 's  or  Martha's  Vineyard  ?  [April, 

That  an  island  south  of  Cape  Cod  was  called  Martha's  Vineyard 
by  the  explorer  Gosnold  in  1602  is  well  known  (3  Mass.  Hist.  Coll., 
via.  75),  and  it  seems  certain  that  lie  applied  it  to  the  small  isle, 
now  called  No  Man's  or  Neman's  Land,  lying  directly  southwest 
from  the  Vineyard  of  to-day,  at  a  distance  of  three  miles.  That 
this  prenomen  was  finally  transferred  to  the  present  Martha's  Vine- 
yard seems  equally  certain  ;  but  that  the  name  Martin's  was  used 
up  to  about  1700,  even  by  the  residents  of  the  Vineyard,  by  local 
historians  and  patographers,  by  public  officials  throughout  Xew 
England  and  Xew  York,  must  be  accepted  by  the  reader  upon  the 
array  of  authorities  which  follows.  What  gave  rise  to  this  confusion 
in  the  seventeenth  century,  for  in  the  next  it  was  settled  by  the 
colonial  government  of  Massachusetts  as  "'  Martha,*  is  not  easily 
explained.  Such  a  difference  of  names,  so  long  persisted  in,  must 
have  had  some  substantial  basis  in  fact,  for  it  is  not  credible  that 
accident  or  chance  or  mistake  will  account  for  all  this  mixture.  In 
the  following  tables  is  appended  a  list  of  references  to  documents, 
etc.,   which  show  when,   where  and  how  the  two  names  were  used : 

"  MARTIN'S  "  VINEYARD. 

Date.  Author.  Book  or  Document.  Reference. 

1638     Underbill,  John.  Newes  from  America.  passim. 

1642  Lechford,  Thomas.  Plaine  Dealing.  107. 

1643  Winthrop.  John.  Journal.  ii.  151. 

1644  Commissioners  of  United  Colonies,  Records.  passim. 
1647     Paine,  Thomas.  Suffolk  Deeds.  i.  86. 

1647  Davison,  Nicholas.  "  "  i.  91. 

1648  Good  News  from  NewEngland. 

1649  Winslow,  Edward.  GloriousProgress  of  Gospel. etc. 

1650  AVilliarns.  Roger.  Letter  to  John  Winthrop,  Jr. 

1651  "Whitfield,  Henry.  The  Light  Appearing. 

1651  Ressev,  Anthony.  )  T    ..  .    .     ,-,     .,        t> 
,r,  r.    v  *    .    T  ,      J    (  Letters  ot,  in  further  Pro- 
16ol  Endicott.  John.      r  e    .      ^,         ,     , 
,£-..  .,,        T->        T  ,      1  gress  ot  the  Gospel,  etc. 
16ol  Ahen,  Rev.  John. )  &                         .    l 

1652  Butler,  Nicholas.  Suffolk  Deeds.  i.  196. 
1654  Johnson.  Edward.               Wonder  Working  Providence.       226. 
1654                  Massachusetts  Colonial  Records.    "                        iv.  (i.)  199. 
1656                  New  York  Colonial  Documents.                             i.565,  ii.134. 
1658                  Plymouth  Colony  Records.                                       x.  209. 
1660  Maverick,  Samuel.             Description  of  New  England. 

1660  Folger,  Peter.                     Deed,  in  N.  E.  Hist.  Gen.  Reg.  xii.  33. 

1662  Plymouth  Colon v  Records.  x.  275. 

1663  Plymouth  Colonv  Records.  x.  293. 

1664  Patent  to  Duke  of  York,  2  Maine  Hist.  Coll.       iv.  191. 

1665  Royal  Commissioners,  2  Maine  Hist.  Coll.  iv.  300. 

1666  Mayhew,  Thomas.  York  County  Deeds.  iii.  161. 

1666  [Eliot,  Rev.  John.]  Roxbury  Church  Records. 

1667  New  York  Colonial  Documents.  iii.  169. 
1667  Plymouth  Colony  Records.  x.  330. 
1699     Morton,  Nathaniel.            New  England  Memorial. 


X. 

356. 

.Col.  Doc 

.  iii. 

215. 
157. 

iii. 

•248. 

gland. 

pa; 

>sim. 

vi. 

48. 

vi. 

65. 

/Col.  Doc 

.iii. 

328. 

iii. 

552. 

England 

42. 

iii. 

752. 

iii. 

798. 

vi. 

288. 

iv. 

2,8, 

1894.]  31artin,s  or  Martha's  Vineyard  ?  203 

1671  Commission  to  Thomas  Mayhew  as  Governor, 

issued  by  Lovelace. 

1672  Plymouth  Colony  Records. 

1674  Andres,  Edmund.  Commission  of,  N.  Y 

1675  Josselyn.  John.  Two  Voyages,  etc. 

1677  New  York  Colonial  Documents; 

1678  Hubbard.  Rev.  William.   History  of  New  En< 

1679  Plymouth  Colony  Records. 

1681  Plymouth  Colony  Records. 

1682  Dongan,  Thomas.  Commission  of,  N.Y/Col. 

1688  New  York  Colonial  Documents. 

1689  [E.  R.  and  S.  S.J  Revolution  in  New 

Justified. 

1690  New  York  Colonial  Documents. 

1691  New  York  Colonial  Documents. 

1692  Cadillac.  M.  de  la  Mothe.   1  Blaine  Hist.  Coll. 

1693  New  York  Colonial  Documents.  iv.  2,  8,  10. 

It  is  also  desirable  that  such  books  and  documents  as  disclose  the 
name  *  Martha's  "  should  be  cited,  and  they  are  herewith  appended  : 

"  MARTHA'S  "  VINEYARD. 

Date.               Author.  Book  or  Document.  Eeference. 

1610  Strachey,  William  Travaille  into  Virginia. 

1641  Vines.  Richard.  Hough's  Nantucket  Papers.  4. 

1663  Winthrop,  John,  Jr.  3  Mass.  Hist.  Coll. 

1678  Gookin,  Daniel,  et  ah.  2  Maine  Hist.  Coll.  iv.  383. 

1676  Sewall,  Samuel.  Diary.  i.  26. 
1689                  Briefe  Relation  of  the  .State  of  New  England.  19. 

1692  Acts  and  Resolves  of  the  Province  of  Mass.  Bay. 

1693  Phips,  William.  New  York  Colonial  Doc.         iv.  6. 
1696     Mayhew,  Matthew.  Conquering  Grace,  etc. 

The  maps  of  the  period  are  disappointing  as  a  rule,  but  they 
give  corroborative  evidence  in  the  same  proportion  as  the  documen- 
tary and  printed  authorities,  viz  : — 

Martin's.  Martha's. 

1670     Ogilby.  1610     [Brown,  Genesis  i.  457.] 

1677  Hubbard.  1671     Novi  Belgii,  etc. 

French  (Mass.  Arch.  ii.  61). 

1688     Blome. 
1702     Mather. 

It  should  be  said  that  the  "Novi  Belgii  "  map  of  1671  gives  the 
name  of  Martha's  Vineyard  to  the  present  Xo  Man's  or  Noman's  Land, 
and  "Texel"  is  applied  to  the  present  Vineyard,  a  name  that  first 
was  given  to  it  in  the  Carte  Figurative  (161G),  and  is  repeated  in 
the  West  Indische  Paskaert  (1621),  the  Ammo  del  Mare  (1646), 
and  in  Blaen's  (1662,  168.3).  As  a  curiosity  of  development  of 
nomenclature  it  may  be  noted  that  "  C.  Wack  :'  in  the  Novi  Belgii 


201  Descendants  of  Rev.  John  Robinson.  [April, 

map,  meaning  Cape  AVack,  is  an  effort  to  render  Capawoek  into 
English.  In  Drake's  Old  Indian  Croniele  (p.  51),  a  unique  title 
appears,  "  Nope  or  Marthas  Vineyard."  No  other  occurrence  of 
this  singular  word  has  come  to  the  notice  of  the  Avriter. 

As  to  the  probability  of  evidence  in  favor  of  either  name,  the 
case  for  "  Martin  "  must  overcome  the  statement  of  John  Brereton, 
the  historian  of  Gosnold's  voyage,  that  an  island,  generally  consid- 
ered to  be  Noman's  Land,  received  in  1602  the  title  of  "Marthaes 
Vineyard."  It  is  known  that  a  Capt.  John  Martin  was  with  Gos- 
nold  in  this  voyage,  and  later  figures  as  an  associate  of  Gosnold  in 
the  early  settlement  of  Virginia.  The  suggestion  that  it  was  this 
companion's  name,  John  Martin,  which  was  intended  to  be  honored 
by  the  baptism,  is  quite  within  the  probabilities  ;  as  much  so  as 
Point  Gilbert,  which  was  named  by  him  for  Bartholomew  Gilbert, 
another  companion,  and  Tucker's  Terror,  which  he  applied  to  a 
shoal  or  reef  for  another  voyager. 

Brereton's  relation  is  not  above  criticism,  for  many  errors  as  to 
sailing  courses,  longitude  and  other  kindred  subjects,  and  he  may 
be,  perhaps,  successfully  impeached  on  the  subject  of  "  Marthaes 
Vineyard." 


SOME  DESCENDANTS  OF  THE  REV.  JOHN  ROBINSON 
OF  LEYDEN,  HOLLAND. 

Communicated  by  Hon.  Ariel  Standish  Thckston,  of  Elmira,  N.  Y. 

A  short  time  before  the  death  of  Gov.  Lucius  Robinson  I  re- 
ceived from  him  the  enclosed  genealogy,  showing  him  to  have  been 
a  lineal  descendant  of  the  Puritan  divine  John  Robinson  of  Leydon, 
— the  friend  of  my  ancestor  Myles  Standish,  whose  will  contains  a 
bequest  to  his  son  Isaac's  daughter  "  Marcye,"  whom  tf  I  tenderly 
love  for  her  grandfather's  sake."  Of  course,  I  know  nothing  of 
its  authenticitv. 


The  Genealogy  of  the  Family  of  John  Robinson,  of  Church  at  Leyden, 
who  died  1625,  March  1. 

His  sons,  John  and  Isaac,  with  their  mother  came  to  America.  John 
settled  at,  or  near,  Cape  Ann;  Isaa:  settled  first  at  Scituate,  Mass.,  after- 
wards moved  to  Barnstable  in  1639.  [There  is  but  little  doubt  that  this  is 
a  mistake.  See  note  at  the  end  of  the  article.  Isaac  came,  but  probably 
no  other  member  of  the  family.] 

1.  Peter,  a  son  of  Isaac,  lived  at  Windham,  Ct.  (Scotland  Society)  in 
1735,  with  seven  sons  and  two  daughters. 

2.  Peter  second,  married  Ruth  Fuller  1725,  had  eight  sons  and  four 
daughters.     Eliab  was  Peter  second'9  seventh  son;   Ralph  was  Eliab's  first 


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1894.]  Descendants  of  Rev.  John  Robinson.  205 

son;  and  Eliab  Weeks  was  Ralph's  first  son,  and  lived  at  Lisbon,   Ct.  in 
1850,  and  had  one  son. 

3.  Israel,  son  of  Peter,  married  Sarah  Sabin  1724,  and  Deborah  Chap- 
man 1737.  Sarah  Robinson  had  three  sons,  and  Deborah  C  Robinson 
one  daughter. 

4.  Thomas,  son  of  Peter,  married  Anna  1724,  had  three  sons  and  three 
daughters.     Died  March,  17S3,  aged  85  years. 

Reuben,  son  of  Thomas,  born  Jan.  17,  1725,  married  Esther  Palmer 

Jan.  1749. 
Asa,  son  of  Thomas,  born  Oct.  17.  1726,  married  Mary  French  Oct. 

1749,  died  1811,  aged  86. 
Abiah,  daughter,  born  May  16,  1727,  married  Jonah  Palmer  1754. 
Anna,  born  March  17,  1730,  died  in  infancy. 
Anna,  born  May  1,  1733,  married  Ebenezer  Luce  1749. 
Levi,  son  of  Thomas,  born  March  17,  1736. 

5.  Benjamin,  fifth  sou  of  Peter,  married  Jerusha  Brigham  March  1729, 
had  two  sons  and  three  daughters. 

6.  Joseph,  son  of  Peter,  married  Mehitable  Read  July  1735,  had  four 
sons  and  three  daughters. 

7.  Isaac,  seventh  son  of  Peter,  married  Deborah  Hibbard  D-^c.  1737. 

1.  Sinuon,  [?]  first  daughter  of  Peter,  married  Josiah  Smith  Nov.  13,  1746, 
and  had  five  sons  and  three  daughters. 

2.  Martha,  second  daughter  of  Peter,  married  Barnabas  Allen,  grand- 
father of  Deacon  Barnabas  Allen  of  Westminister,  Conn. 

End  of  Peter's  Family. 
Reuben's  Family. 
Reuben,  son  of  Thomas,  son  of  Peter  1st,  married  Esther  Palmer  Jan. 
12,  1749,  had  four  sons  and  five  daughters,  as  follows: 
Esther,  born  July  18,  1749,  died  July  19.  1749. 
Zipporah,  born  Jan  31,  1751,  married  John  Welsh  Nov.  1772. 
Zopher,  born  Feb.  19,  1753,  married  Charity  Coburn  Nov.  1780. 
Clifferd,  born  Jan.  8,  1756,  married  Lucy  Morgan  Oct.  1779. 
Reuben,  born  Jan.  13,  1759,  married  Urania  Kingsley  Aug.  1779. 
Hannah,  born  Feb.  21,  1761,  married  Jesse  Parsons. 
Esther,  born  Feb.  6,  1764.  married  Ward  well  Green  Oct.  1783. 
Asnath,  born  June  26,  1766,  married  Levi  Green  June  1785. 
Eliel,  born  Sept.  24,  1768,  married  Roxana  Spaiford. 
Asa's  Family. 
Asa,  son  of  Thomas,  born  Oct.  17,   1726,  married  Mary  French  Oct. 
25,  1749,  died  1811,  aged  85  years,  and  had  eight  children,  as  follows: 
Levi,  born  Oct.  26,  1750,  married  Lavonia  SpafFerd  Dec.  1780. 
Phebe,  born  Oct.  2,  1752.  died  Jan.  23,  1814. 
Thomas,  born  Jan.  2,  1755,  died  at  Stonington  Nov.  13,  1776. 
Asa,  born  June  6,  1757,  married  Olive  Hunnington  Sept.  17,  1777. 
Zimrue,  born  March  30,  1761. 
Mary,  born  June  15,  1764. 
Zilpah,  born  Aug.  12,  1767. 
Charity,  born  June  16,  1772. 
Children  of  Levi  Robinson. 
Levi,  son  of  Asa,  married  Lavonia  SpafFerd  Dec.  1780,  died  Jan.  23, 
1814.     Left  two  daughters: 

Lucy,  daughter  of  Levi,  born  Dec.  2,  1785. 

VOL.     XLVIII.  19 


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206  Descendants  of  Rev.  John  Robinson.  [April, 

Lavonia,  daughter  of  Levi,  born  Aug.  29,  1795. 
Children  of  Asa.  Jr. 
Asa  Robinson,  Jr.  married  Olive  Huntongton  Sept.  17,  1777. 
Thomas,  son  of  Asa,  born  Aug.  7,  1779. 
Whiting,  son  of  Asa,  born  Sept.  2,  1782. 
Olivia,  born  April  21,  1785,  must  have  died. 
Olivia,  [?]  son  of  Asa,  born  March  19,  1788. 
Lewis,  son  of  Asa,  born  Dec.  14,  1790. 
Betsey,  born  Dec.  26,  1793. 
Nathan,  born  Aug.  15,  1796. 
Polly,  born  Feb.  25,  1800. 
Children  of  Reuben  Robinson. 
Reuben  Robinson,  Jr.,  son  of  Reuben,  son  of  Thomas,  son  of  Peter  1st, 
son  of  Isaac,  son  of  John  Robinson,  pastor  of  Church  of  Leyden,  had  five 
sons  and  four  daughters,  as  follows: 

Eli  Palmer  Robinson,  born  Dec.  11,  1780,  died  Dec.  14,  1851.    Mar- 
ried Mary  Saxton  1S00,  born  April  19,  1780. 
Urania,  married  James  Woodferd. 
Bradford,  married  Wiihelmina  Sanfer. 
Fanny,  married  Reuben  Fish. 
Nancy,  married  Samuel  Baldwin. 
Benjamin  Franklin,  married  Bede  Munson. 
Charles  Kingsley. 
Isaac  Newton. 

Elmina  Malissa,  married Bangs. 

Family  of  Eli  P.  Robinson. 
Eli  P.  Robinson  had  four  sons  and  one  daughter,  as  follows : 
'  Orrin  Robinson,  born  Dec.  3,  1802,  died  Jan.  30,  1835. 
William  Saxton,  born  Oct.  1,  1805,  died  Nov.  30,  1838. 
Lucius,  born  Nov.  4,  1810,  died  March  23,  1891. 
John  Milton,  born  Feb.  23,  1814,  died  Dec.  24,  1885. 
Mary,  born  Oct.  29,  1822. 
The  descent  of  Gov.  Robinson  is  as  follows :  Rev.  John1  Robinson,  of 
Leydon,  died  March  1,  1625;  Isaac2  Robinson,  of  Scituate,  Mass.;   Peter3 
Robinson,  of  Windham,  Conn,  in  1835,  seven  sons,  two  daughters;  Thomas4 
Robinson,  married  1724,  three  sons  and  three  daughters,  died  1783;   Reu- 
ben5 Robinson,  1st,  married  Esther  Palmer,  four  sons  and  five  daughters; 
Reuben8  Robinson,  2d,  born   1757,  married  Uranu  Kingsley  Aug.  1779; 
Eli  Palmer7  Robinson,  four  sons  and  one  daughter;  Lucius8  Robinson,  bom 
Nov.  4, 1810,  governor  of  New  York,  died  March  23,  1891. 


Note  bt  the  Editor  of  the  Register. — The  late  Rev.  Henry  M. 
Dexter,  D.D.,  contributed  to  the  Register  for  April,  1866,  an  article  en- 
titled, "  Did  the  Widow  of  John  Robinson  emigrate  to  America?  "  In  this 
article  Dr.  Dexter  gives  strong  reasons  for  believing  that  she  never  came 
to  New  England. 

The  settler  at  Cape  Ann  was  Abraham  Robinson,  not  John.  (See 
Babson's  Gloucester,  page  134.)  I  have  seen  no  evidence  that  Rev.  John 
Robinson  had  a  son  by  the  name  of  Abraham.  The  list  of  his  children  in 
1622  gives  the  names  of  his  children  as  James  (or,  a3  Mr.  George  Sumner 


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1894.]  ..  Maverick  Family.  207 

reads  it,  John),  Bridget,  Isaac,  Mercy,  Feo.r  and  Jacob.  (Register,  vol, 
15.  p.  30). 

Rev.  John  A.  Vinton,  in  his  Giles  Memorial  (Boston,  1S64),  devotes  ten 
pages  Cpp.  3G3  to  372),  to  the  "Family  of  John  Robinson  of  Leyden." 
The  reader  who  wishes  to  kuow  more  about  this  family  is  referred  to  that 
book.  The  children  of  Gov.  Robinson's  father  and  grandfather  are  not 
given  there. 

Judge  Sewall  had  an  interview  with  Isaac  Robinson  probably  at  Barn- 
stable, in  April,  1702,  and  was  told  by  him  that  he  was  then  92  years  old, 
and  was  "ye  son  of  Mr.  Robinson,  pastor  of  ye  ch.  of  Leyden  part  of  wch 
came  to  Plim0.  But  to  my  uisappointm' "  adds  Judge  Sewall,  "he  came 
not  to  New  England,  till  ye  year  [1631]  in  wch  Mr.  Wilson  was  returning 
to  England  after  ye  settlem'  of  Boston."         See  Register,  vol.  14,  p.  13. 


THE  MAVERICK  FAMILY. 

By  Isaac  John-  Greenwood,  A.M.,  of  New  York  city. 

Some  twenty  years  since,  looking  over  the  late  Col.  Joseph  L. 
Chester's  MS.  catalogue  of  Oxford  graduates,  my  attention  was 
drawn  by  him  to  the  name  of  "John  Maverick,  1595,  Exeter 
College,  from  Devon,  Minister." 

Foster's  Catalogue,  much  fuller  in  details,  reads  as  follows  : 

"Maverick,  John  of  Devon,  cler.  fi].,  Exeter  Coll.,  matric.  24  Oct.  1595, 
aged  18;  B.A.  8  July  1577;  M.A.  7  July  1603;  then  in  orders,  rector  of 
Beaworthy  (s.w.  of  Hatherly),  Devon,  1615.     (See  Foster's  Index  Eccl.)." 

This  was  undoubtedly  "the  godly  Mr.  Maverick,"  whom  Roger 
Clap,  born  on  the  Devonshire  coast,  at  Salcomb  (between  Sidmouth 
and  Branscomb),  speaks  of  as  living  "forty  miles  off,"  and  who, 
after  establishing  a  congregation  at  Dorchester,  X.  E.,  died  Feb. 
3,  1636-7,  being,  according  to  "YVintbrop,  "near  sixty  years  of 
age." 

Though  we  hear  nothing  of  his  wife,  she  is  alluded  to  in  1665,  by 
Col.  Cartwright,  in  his  "  Memorial*  concerning  the  Massachusets," 
who  observes  : 

"If  any  of  the  commissioners  think  it  more  convenient  for  them  to  stay 
in  those  parts,  that  they  may  haue  leue  to  do  so.  For  Mr.  Maverick  hath 
his  mother,  wife,  children  &  brothers  living  there,  and  nether  estate,  nor 
employment  here." 

And  Samuel  Maverick,  writing  from  Rhode  Island  Oct.  9,  1668, 
to  Secretary  Sir  William  Morice,  says  that  his  mother  "presents 
her  humble  service."  (See  Sainsbury's  Calendar  of  Colonial  Papers, 
vol.  3,  p.  415,  No  1288).      This  Secretary  Morice,  who  died  in 

•  Clarendon  Papers,  N.  Y.  Hist.  Soc.  Coll.,  1869,  p.  103. 


' 


• 


208  Maverick  Family.  [April. 

Dec.  1G76  aged  74,  was  son  of  Jevan  Morice,  fellow  of  All  Saints 
College,  Oxford,  of  an  ancient  Welsh  family,  doctor  of  laws  and 
chancellor  of  Exeter,  Devon,  in  15i'4,  and  ancestor  of  the  extinct 
Baronets  Morice  of  Werrington,  Devon,  on  the  borders  of  Cornwall, 
a  few  miles  s.w.  of  Bcaworthy. 

The  widow  Maverick,  in  16G8,  must  have  been  well  advanced  in 
years,  since  by  his  own  deposition,*  taken  in  December,  1665,  her- 
eon Samuel  was  then  "aged  G3  yeares  or  therabouts." 

Samuel,  the  eldest  son  of  the  Rev.  John  Maverick,  born  about 
1602,  had  settled  in  New  England  as  early  as  1624,  f  near  the  con- 
fluence of  Charles  and  Mystic  Rivers,  where  with  the  help  of  his 
neighbor,  David  Tomson,  j  he  had  built  a  small  fort.  He  was  an 
episcopalian  and  loyalist,  and  frequently  embroiled  with  the  colonial 
government ;  finally,  after  one  of  his  several  voyages  to  the  old 
country,  he  was,  in  April  1G64,  appointed  one  of  the  four  Royal 
Commissioners  to  visit  the  colonies  and  inquire  into  grievances. 
For  his  services  he  received  from  the  Duke  of  York,  through  a 
grant  from  Gov.  Lovelace,  a  certain  house  and  lot  in  New  York 
City,  on  the  Broadway.  This  gift  he  acknowledges  in  a  letter  of 
Oct.  15,  1GG9,  to  Col.  Rich.  Nicolls,  his  associate  in  the  Commis- 
sion, and  we  hear  not  of  him  again  till  in  a  deed  of  Mar.  15,  1G76 
(recorded  Albany,  L.l,  p.  133),  his  trustees,  John  Laurence  and 
Matthias  .Xicolls,  of  New  York,  confirm  to  AVilliam  Vander 
Scheuren  this  same  property  on  Broadway,  which  the  latter  had 
bought  from  the  Deacons  of  the  City,  by  whom  it  had  been  pur- 
chased at  a  public  sale  made  for  the  benefit  of  Maverick's  daughter, 
Mary,  wife  of  Rev.  Francis  Hooke  of  Kittery.  Neither  the  time 
nor  place  of  Maverick's  death,  nor  the  depository  of  his  will  have 
been,  as  yet,  ascertained.  No  records  of  so  early  a  date  are  pre- 
served by  the  Dutch  Church,  who  evidently  held  the  lot  for  a  short 
period,  but,  after  a  careful  examination  of  conveyances  in  the  City 
Register's  office,  the  writer  has  satisfactorily  located  the  position 
of  the  Maverick  Lot.  May  30,  1667,  Gov.  Nicolls  granted  a  lot  on 
Broadway  to  Adam  Onckelbach,  which  is  described  in  later  deeds 
as  bounded  south  by  house  and  lot  of  William  Vander  Scheuren, 
and  which  finally  in  Oct.  1784,  when  known  as  No.  52  Broadway, 
was  sold  to  John  Jay,  Esq.,  the  future  governor,  who  here  erected 
a  fine  stone  mansion.  At  this  time  the  lot  adjoining  to  the  south 
was  in  the  tenure  and  occupation  of  John  Slidell,  save  some  64  feet 
on  the  easterly  or  New  Street  end,  which  had  been  sold  in  1683  by 
Vander  Scheuren  to  William  Post  (L.  13,  p.  8;  L.  35,  p.  170). 
S  Udell's  sons  in  1819  sold  the  greater  portion  of  the  lot,  facing  on 
Broadway,  with  a  frontage  of  214.  ft.,  and  a  depth    110  ft.,  to 

*  Suffolk  Deeds,  iv.,  323. 

t  Letter  of  Ma*  30,  1G69,  to  Rev.  Sampson  Bond,  at  the  Bermudas;  a  native  of  Northill, 
Cornwall.— Mass.'Hist.  Soc.  Coll..  4th  «.,  vol.  viii,  p.  318. 

J  Thomson's  widow,  Amias  (Coles)  is  supposed  to  have  married  Maverick.— Reg.,  v.  47, 
p.  76. 


1894.]  v  Maverick  Family.  209 

Robert  Lenox  ;  while  the  remaining  few  inches,  with  a  lot  adjoin- 
ing to  the  south,  known  as  Xo.  18,  was  sold  by  them  on  the  same 
date  to  David  Gelston.  From  the  foregoing  facts  we  gather  that 
the  original  Maverick  Lot  was  26£  feet  wide,  located  on  the  easter- 
ly side  of  Broadway,  running  through  to  Xew  Street,  and  be- 
ginning 125  feet  south  from  the  Church  Street  (afterwards  Garden 
Street,  and  now  Exchange  Place)  ;  and  that  it  corresponded  with 
the  present  No.  50  Broadway. 

Though  extinct  in  the  Xew  England  States,  the  Maverick  fam- 
ily has  existed  for  the  past  one  hundred  and  fifty  years  in  Xew 
York  City,  where  Andrew  Maverick,  a  young  painter,  24  years 
of  age,  was  admitted  a  freeman  July  17,  1753  ;  his  name  occur- 
ring on  the  Poll  List  of  Feb.,  1761.  He  was  baptized  at  the  Xew 
Brick  Church,  Boston,  Feb.  9,  1728-9  :  one  of  the  numerous  fam- 
ily of  John4  Maverick  (Paul3,  Elias2,  Eev.  John1.)  an  importer  of 
hard  woods  on  Middle  Street  (now  Hanover  St.),  at  the  sign  of 
the  "Cabinet  and  Chest  of  Drawers,"  John's  grandson  Samuel 
(son  of  Samuel  deceased),  an  apprentice  of  Mr.  Isaac  Greenwood, 
ivory  turner  &c,  was  mortally  wounded,  March  5,  1770,  in  the 
Boston  Massacre.  Andrew,  who  came  to  Xew  York,  married 
about  1754  Sarah,  dau.  of  Peter  and  Bethia  Ruston  or  Rusnton, 
and  Mr.  Rushton,  in  a  will  of  17G5,  proved  Aug.  14,  1767  (L.25, 
p.  534),  leaves  his  entire  estate,  after  the  death  of  his  wife  Bethia, 
to  his  grandson  Peter  Rushton5  Maverick.*  The  latter,  born  in  the 
city  April  11,  1755,  a  silver-smith,  etcher  and  engraver,  was  in 
Aug.  1775  an  Ensign  in  Capt.  M.  Minthorms  Co.,  of  Col.  John 
Jay's  2dReg't  of  X.  Y.  Militia,  and  on  July  23,  1788,  represented 
the  Engravers  in  the  X.  Y.  Federal  Procession ;  he  died  in  Dec. 
1811,  and  was  succeeded  by  his  three  talented  sons,  Samuel,7  An- 
drew7 and  Peter.7 

The  name  Maverick,  one  of  unusual  occurrence,  is  akin  doubtless 
to  Morris,  Morrice,  or  Maurice  ;  we  get  nearer  to  it  in  the  original 
Welsh  Mawr-rwyce,  "a  valiant  hero." 

Xath.  Maureick,f  chief  clerk  of  the  Town  Clerk,  London,  died 
24  Xovember,  1630,  and  John  Mavericke  was  a  settler  located  iu 
Charleston,  S.  C,  in  1672. 

One  other  entry  to  the  name  is  given  by  Foster : 

"Maverick,  Radford, J  of  Devon,  pleb.,  Exeter  Coll.  matric.  17  Nov. 
1581  aged  20;  rector  of  Trusbam  (n.  of  Chudleigh),  1586,  and  vicar  of 
Islington,  Devou(?)  1597.     (See  Foster's  Index  Eccl.)." 

*  Dr.  John  Greenwood  of  N.  Y.  writing  in  Nov.,  1S03  to  P.  R.  Maverick,  alludes  to  a  lot 
on  Middle  St.,  Boston,  belonging  to  estate  of  his  late  father,  Isaac  G.,  and  which  adjoined 
land  of  Maverick's  grandfather. 

t  Smith's  Obituary,  Camden  Soc.  Pub. 

X  Radford  was  a  Devonshire  family  name. 
VOL.  XLVIII.  19* 


210  Mates  and  Queries.  [April, 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 

Notes. 

Weems,  Towsox,  Wallace.  Payne,  ov  Virgixl*.. — liI  wish  to  protest  in  the 
Register  against  some  of  the  mistaken  deductions"  of  Hayden's  "  Virginia 
Genealogies."  In  it  there  are  "  some  pedigrees  for  which  there  is  not  the  least 
foundation  in  fact." 

First,  on  p.  350.  Hayden  gives  the  descent  of  the  Weems  family  of  Maryland 
as  follows:  An  Earl  of  Wemyss'  youngest  son,  James,  who  was  slain  at  the 
battle  of  Preston  Pans  (in  Sept.  17-1-5),  was  the  father  of  David  Weems  who 
was  brought  to  Maryland  and  was  the  father  eventually  of  live  sons,  progenitors 
of  well-known  Maryland  and  Virginia  families.  I  have  not  quoted  the  exact 
words  of  Hayden's  "  unreliable  deductions,"  hut  give  only  the  substance  in  brief. 

In  Wood's' Douglas'  Peerage  of  Scotland,  under  ll  Earls  of  Wemyss,"  it  will  he 
found  that  the  only  ;'  Earl  of  Wemyss"  who  "  had  a  younger  son  James"  that 
would  come  anywhere  near  the  dates  required  by  Hayden  to  make-  his  assertion 
have  some  semblance  of  truth,  was  James  Wemyss,  fourth  Earl  of  Wemyss,  b. 
1690,  d.  1756.  He  had  a  younger  son  James  Wemyss,  b.  1726,  who  instead  of 
being  slain  at  Preston  Pans  in  17-15,  d.  in  178G  at  Edinburgh,  forty-one  years 
after  the  battle.  This  youngest  son  James  was,  just  as  Hayden  says,  the  father 
of  a  David  Wemyss  who  was  b.  if  61,  but  who,  although  he  was  considerable  of 
a  traveller,  was  never  in  Maryland  nor  America.  However,  this  does  not  mat- 
ter, since  he  d.  s.o.  and  unm.  in  1783;  at  Madura. 

Second,  on  p.  274.  Hayden  gives  a  glorious  descent  for  the  Towson  family  of 
Maryland  aud  Virginia  from  that  great  historical  character,  Oliver  Cromwell, 
the  Lord  Protector,  briefly  as  follows :  Oliver  Cromwell,  the  Protector,  had 
Henry,  who  had  Richard/  whose  daughter  was  the  mother  of  Gen.  Nathaniel 
Towson,  U.  S.  army,  father  of  Thomas  Towson,  of  Williamsport.  Md.  As 
originally  the  surname  of  the  Protector  was  Williams,  the  locating  his  alleged 
descendant  at  "  Williamsport"  was  a  very  pretty  idea  from  the  fertile  imagina- 
tion of  the  Rev.  Mr.  Hayden,  but  genealogists  require  better  evidence  of 
descent  than  this.  However,  this  is  only  a  small  matter,  for  there  has  been 
recently  published  a  work  that  upsets  Hayden's  distinguished  Unease  of  the 
Towsous  and  Cromwells  of  Maryland:  this  is  Weyland's  House  of  Cromwell. 
From  it  I  learn  that  Richard  Cromwell,  a  grandson  of  the  Lord  Protector,  d. 
in  1759,  and  his  only  daughters  were:  1,  Elizabeth,  who  d.  at  Hampstead  in 
1792  (see  Gent.  Mag.,  Nov.  1792):  2,  Anne,  d.  at  Berkhampstead  in  1777;  3, 
Eleanor,  d.  infant;  4,  Letitia,  d.  at  Hampstead  in  1789.  All  were  unmarried  and 
without  issue,  so  no  daughter  of  Richard  Cromwell  (son  of  Henry,  son  of  the 
Protector),  could  have  been  the  mother  of  Gen.  Nathaniel  Towson.  of  Mary- 
land, nor  does  the  name  of  Towson,  nor  Cromwell  of  Maryland,  appear  in  any 
connection  in  the  account  of  the  descendants  of  the  Lord  Protector. 

Third,  p.  689,  ic.  Hayden  deduces  the  descent  of  a  Virginia  family  named 
Wallace  from  the  "  Wallaces  of  Galrigs,"  Scotland,  and  then  gives  these  latter 
a  long  line  of  distinguished  ancestors,  reaching  into  A.D.  1100,  namely,  the 
"  Wallaces  of  Ederslie."  Brieily,  Hayden's  scheme  of  desceut  for  the  Wallaces  of 
Galrigs  from  the  more  prominent  Wallaces  of  Ederslie,  in  order  to  give  the  Vir- 
ginia Wallaces  a  very  long  line,  is  William  Wallace  of  Ederslie  (whose  lineage 
is  traced  back  to  A. D.  1100),  d.  1554.  had  William  of  Ederslie,  had  John,  had 
William,  had  William,  a  Glasgow  merchant,  d.  1713,  father  of  William  Wallace 
of  Galrigs,  d.  ante,  1734,  a  Commissioner  for  Ayr.  1714-1720,  who  was  the  alleged 
ancestor  of  the  Virginia  Wallaces.  "  There  is  not  a  scintilla  of  evidence  for  all 
this."  In  giving  "this  descent  for  the  Commissioner  of  Ayr,  Hayden  refers 
to  Paterson's  History  of  Ayr  and  Wigton.  Evidently  he  personally  never  saw 
this  valuable  work,  as  he  evidently  has  not  taken  pains  to  verify  references ; 
if  he  had  he  would  have  found  out  how  the  Wallaces  came  into  pos-.e^ion  of 
Galrigs,  and  the  true  lineage  of  the  alleged  ancestors  of  the  Wallaces  of 
Virginia. 

In  Paterson's  work,   vol.  I.,  p.  4S6,  his  deductions  are  disproved  as  fol- 


i 


1894.]  Notes  and  Queries.  211 

lows  : — "  William  Wallace,  the  Commissioner  of  Ayr,  had  susine  of  Galrigs  as 
heir  to  Robert  Wallace,  his  great-graadfather  (not  John,  as  Hayden  states), 
and  to  the  deceased  William  Wallace,  his  grandfather,  of  the  eight  marks  of 
land  of  RobertFand,  S  May  1714."  According  to  Paterson  the  Commissioner's 
father  was  "  William  Wallace  of  Galrigs  the  younger,"  a  tutor  (not  a  Glasgow 
merchant:  William  the  merchant  was  an  entirely  different  person),  brother  to 
Hugh  Wallace,  who  had  susine  of  an  annuity  in  170S,  son  of  "  Mr.  William 
Wallace  of  Garricks,  1052,*'  who  d.  in  167-,  son  of  "  Robert  Wallace  in  Galrix, 
1609."  and  subsequently  "of  Galrix  (Galriss),  who  d.  in  Sept.  1642,  son  of 
"  William  Wallace  of  Gariggs,  granted  susine  in  1573,"  &c,  &c. 

Fourth,  p.  250.  Here  Haydea  wrongfully  makes  Dolly  Payne,  wife  of  Presi- 
dent Madison,  of  descent  from  a  Scotch  earl.  He  says  Mrs.  Madison  was  a 
granddaughter  of  John  Payne,  and  his  wife  Anna  Fleming  granddaughter  of 
"  Sir  Thomas  Fleming  of  New  Kent,  Co.  Virginia,  temp.  1616,  secoud  son  of 
the  Earl  of  Wigton."  There  may  have  been  a  "Sir  Thomas  Fleming."  and 
"Dolly"  may  have  been  descended  from  him,  but  no  Earl  of  Wigton  ever 
had  a  son  "  Sir  Thomas."  According  to  Wood's  Douglas's  Peerage  of  Scotland, 
the  first  Earl  of  Wigton,  so  quoted  in  1G0G,  was  John,  sixth  Lord  Fleming, 
who  d.  in  1619.  He  was  twice  married,  and  had  by  first  wife,  Lillias  Grabaur: 
1,  John,  2d  Earl:  2,  James,  of  BoghaiL,  d.  1622;  3,  Malcolm,  of  Gilberton ; 
4,  Alexander,  ami  six  daughters j  and  by  his  second  wife,  Sarah  Maxwell, 
he  had  only  two  daughters.  John  Fleming,  2d  Earl,  d.  1650,  had  only  John, 
3d  Earl,  and  Sir  William,  who  d.  s.p  ,  his  graud-nieee,  Countess  Passmure,  was 
proved  as  his  heir.  Ilayden's  noble  descent  for  Mrs.  Madison  is  "made  out 
of  whole  cloth."  Charles  H.  Browning. 

Ardmore  P.  O.,  Montgomery  Co.,  Ycnn. 


Family  Records.— There  is  an  old  book,  Sermons  by  John  Preston,  owned 
by  Mrs,  A.  E.  Austin,  of  Meriden.  Conn.,  and  descended  to  her  from  her  great- 
grandmother  Ruth  Smith.  The  book  says:  "Two  Hundred  and  Fifty  Two 
years  ago  in  1C34  this  book  was  imprinted  at  Loudon  by  R.  V.  for  Nicholas 
Bourne  and  are  to  be  sold  at  the  north  entrance  of  Royal  Exchange.  The  Fifth 
Edition."  Copied  into  this  book  are  three  pages  of  family  records  of  which 
below  is  a  true  copy  : 

"  This  Book  was  brot  from  England  by  David  Edwards  who  settled  at  Sataw- 
ket  on  Long  Island.  His  wives  name  was  Mary  Swayzy  their  daughter  Mar- 
garet was  married  to  Joshua  Smith  of  Coram  in  Bronkhaven.  their  daughter 
Ruth  inherited  this  book  who  was  married  to  John  Birdsey  of  Middletield "Con- 
necticut an  is  now  in  1829  in  the  831  year  of  her  age  since  last  January — She 

has  bequeathed  this  Book  as  a  token  of  affection  to" balance  of  page  torn 

off. 
On  another  page  is  the  following  : 

"Ananias  Smith  Born  March  ye  7,  anog  domi  1729-30 
Isaac  Smith  Born  January  ye  1,  1731 
Mary  Smith  Born  March  "pi,  1733 
Bethiar  Smith  Born  September  y?  27,  1735 
Sarah  Smith  Born  June  ye  1,  1733 
Jonathan  Smith  Born  May  ye  8  anog  domi  1741 
Dauiel  Smith  Born  ye  20th'  of  March  anog  Domi  1744 
Rath  Smith  was  born  ye  221  of  January  Anog  Domi  1746 
Phebe  Smith  Born  June  ye  16  Day  Anog  Domi  1749  " 
On  another  page  is  the  following  : 

"  Johu  Birdsey  Jun.  was  Born  the  16  March  1737  John  Birdsev  jun  marrved 
to  Ruth  Smith  on  5th  Day  of  August.  AD  1779  whose  first  child  was  a  Son  Still 
born  on  the  29th  of  October  1780"  and  their  Second  is  a  Daughter  named  Phebe 
Smith  Birdsey  born  November  3d  17.32.  Their  Third  is  a  Daughter  named  Ruth 
born  March  8th  1786. 

Their  fouth  is  a  Son  named  John,  Born  March  5,  1783. 
Their  fifth  is  a  Daughter  named  Sarah  Born  the  31st  Day  December  1790" 
[The  book  from  which  the  above  was  taken  was  shown  to   me  by  Mrs. 
Grosvenor  W.  Curtiss  of  this  city.     The  title  page  is  missing,  but  is  of  no  con- 
sequence to  our  purpose.     I   begged  her  to  copy  out  the  very  interesting  re- 
cord, hoping  you'll  hud  a  place  for  it  in  the  Register.    I  am  inclined  to  think 
a  deal  of  it  is  new,  for  it  gives  some  marriages  lomr  in  doubt.] 
Hartford,  Ct.  Frank  B.  Gay. 


212  JSTotes  and  Queries.  [April, 

Rev.  Thomas  Davies. — I  have  in  my  possession  a  pamphlet,  which  for  some 
reason  appears  to  be  excessively  rare,  entitled:  "  A  Biographical  Sketch  of  the 
Rev.  Thomas  Davies,  A.M.,  Missionary  of  the  Society  for  Propagating  the 
Gospel  in  Foreign  Parts,  in  Several  of  the  Towns  of  Litchfield  County,  Conn., 
from  the  year  1761  to  the  year  17GG.  By  a  Minister  of  the  County.  New 
Haven  :  Printed  by  Stanley  &  Chapiri.  1843."  It  is  a  duodecimo  of  fifty-nine 
pages  with  an  engraved  portrait  of  Mr.  Davies,  said  to  have  been  taken  from  a 
likeness  made  "  in  England  at  the  age  of  2.">."  As  a  literary  performance,  this 
biography  is  unusually  creditable,  and  I  should  be  glad  to  know  who  was  its 
author. 

It  appears  from  this  work  that  on  Christmas  clay,  1764,  Mr.  Davies  preached 
a  sermon  at  the  dedication  of  the  Church  at  Great  Barrington,  Mass.,  re- 
specting which  his  biographer  says :  "  It  was  printed  at  the  Providence  press 
soon  after  its  delivery,  and  some  copies  of  it  are  said  to  be  still  extant.  Those 
who  remember  to  have  perused  it  speak  of  it  as  having  been  characterized  by 
much  neatness,  simplicity  and  purity  of  style  in  its  composition,  and  to  have 
set  forth  a  statement  of  the  order  and  form  of  worship  prescribed  by  the 
Episcopal  Church,  defended  with  much  clearness,  candor  and  force  of  reasoning.'7 
I  have  sought  in  vain  to  and  a  copy  of  this  printed  sermon  in  any  of  our  large 
libraries  and  collections.  In  a  letter  written  to  the  Society  in  December,  17G4, 
Mr.  Davies  wrote  :  "  If  the  honorable  Society  desire.  I  would  transmit  au  exact 
detail  of  proceedings  in  that  town  [Great  Barrington]  since  I  united  the  people 
as  a  Church,  together  with  a  copy  of  my  sermon  which  I  shall  preach  at  the 
opening  of  their  Church."  But  no  copy  of  the  sermon  is  nosv  to  be  found  in  the 
archives  of  the  Society  in  London,  nor  in  the  British  Museum.  Any  information 
of  the  existence  of  a  copy  of  this  production  would  be  highly  appreciated. 

86  Jit.  Vernon  St.,  Boston.  Franklin  Leonard  Pope. 

Crane  Epitaphs. — The  following  inscriptions  have  been  taken  from  head- 
stones in  the  old  Presbyterian  burying  ground  at  Orange,  New  Jersey,  which  Is 
now  in  a  shameful  state  of  neglect : 

Here  Lyes  ye  Body  of 
Rebekah  wife  of 
Azariah  Crane  Aged 
4S  years  Deca  June 
y«  15th  1730. 
Here  lies  ye  Body  of  Nancy 
&  her  Child  wife  of  Joseph 
Crane  She  Died  Janr-V  7  :  1774. 
In  ye  24  th  Year  of  her  Age. 
Thou  Reader  of  this  Stone 
Shall  quickly  hither  Come 
Death  Sure  will  Bring  the  Down 
The  Grave  is  thy  Long  home, 
Perhaps  you  Reed  &  thotless  turn  away 
But  Death  forbids  you  long  f rom  hence  to  Stay. 

These  stones,  however,  are  in  a  good  state  of  preservation,  and  the  inscrip- 
tions have  been  copied  verbatim.  C.  Sidney  Crane. 
218  West  44  St.,  Nevo  York  City. 

King.— The  following  extracts  from  the  Parish  Register  of  SouthohL  Suffolk 
County,  England,  relating  to  the  King  Family,  have  been  communicated  to  the 
Register  by  Rnfus  King,  Esq.,  of  Yonkers,  N,  Y.  :— 

1602,  Dec*.  12,  William  King  and  Judith  Cocke,  married. 

1603,  Sep.  21,  Judith,  dau.  of  W.  and  J.  King,  baptised. 

1604,  Feb.  3,  Henrv,  son  of  W.  and  J.  King,  baptised. 
1607,  Oct.  23,  Eliza,  dau.  of  W.  and  J.  King,  baptised. 
1609,  Sep.  28,  William  King,  buried. 

1614,  Jan.  16,  Edmund  Awstens  and  Susan  King,  married. 
1620,  Jan.  10,  Robert  Howse  and  Margaret  King,  married. 
1622,  Nov.  14,  Mary,  daughter  of  William  and  Ann  King,  baptised. 


1894.]  r  Notes  and  Queries.  213 

1633,  Oct.  12,  John,  son  of  Jeilery  and  Sarah  Kins,  baptised. 
1635,  Nov.  5,  Joseph,  son  of  Jeffery  King,  baptised. 

1638,  Oct.  18,  Child  of  Jefl'ery  King,  buried. 

1639,  Aug.  7,  Henry  King,  buried. 


Gorham — Graham. — Correction  should  be  made,  in  ray  History  of  Ancient 
Windsor,  Conn.,  Vol.  II.,  P.  214,  note — for  "Gen.  A.  Hamilton  Graham  of 
Mass.,  etc."— read  "  Gen.  A.  Hamilton,  Nathaniel  Gorham  of  Mass."  Also,  p. 
215  of  same,  "  William  Van  Murray  "—should  read  "  William  Vans  Murray."' 

Henry  R.  Stiles. 


Queries. 

The  Parentage  oe  Dr.  John  Bishop  oe  Bradford  and  Medford,  Mass. — 
Dr.  John  Bishop  appears  in  Bradford  about  1718-19.  Bradford  Church  records 
give:  Sarah,  w.  of  Dr.  John  Bishop,  adm.  Feb.,  1719-20. 

Sarah,  of  John  &  Sarah,  born ,  1720. 

John,  "     "      "      "  bapt.  March  18,  1721-22. 

In  April,  1723,  Dr.  John  Bishop  moved  to  Medford,  and  died  there  about 
1739,  leaving  widow  Sarah  and  children  Sarah  and  John.  John  Williams,  the 
early  settler,  and  wife  Jane,  had  a  son  John,  who  married  Rebecca  Coleby, 
daughter  of  Anthony  Coleby  aud  wife  Susanna.  This  John  was  the  father  of 
Sarah  Williams  who  was  the  wife  of  Joseph  Boud  and  mother  of  Sarah  Bond 
the  wife  of  Dr.  John  Bishop. 

Joseph  Bond,  the  husband  of  Sarah  Williams  and  father  of  Sarah  Bond  wife 
of  Dr.  John  Bishop,  was  son  of  John  Bond  and  Hester  Blakeley.  Joseph  Bond 
was  of  Haverhill,  Mass.  The  date  of  this  daughter's  marriage  to  Dr.  Bishop  is 
desired. 

Savage,  Wyman  and  others  make  Dr.  Bishop  the  son  of  Samuel  Bishop, 
who  was  the  oldest  son  of  Thomas  Bishop,  merchant,  of  Ipswich,  Mass..  who 
appeared  there  as  early  as  16§Gj  and  died  in  1670.  "  The  Cogswells  in  America  " 
make  Samuel  Bishop's  son  John  (after  emigrating  from  Ipswich,  Mass.)  a 
resident  of  Connecticut  and  give  him  a  wife  not  of  the  Bond  family. 

If  this  be  true  Dr.  Johu  Bishop  could  not  have  been  of  the  line  of  Thomas 
Bishop  of  Ipswich,  1634-1670. 

From  whence  did  he  come?  From  the  old  country  direct,  or  from  some  other 
line  of  American  Bishops? 

In  the  historical  sermon  delivered  at  Bradford  Dec.  20th,  1S20,  by  Rev.  G.  B. 
Perry,  we  find:  "  The  following  are  the  names  of  physiciaus  who  have  resided 

in  this  place.     It  is  not  known  that  they  stand  in  order  of  life:  Bailey, 

John  Bishop,  from  Ireland,  Ezekiel  Chase,  &c." 

The  authority  for  Mr.  Perry's  statement  was  the  oral  ovidence  given  him  by 
a  laboring  man,  about  one  hundred  years  after  Dr.  Johu  had  left  Bradford.  The 
laboring  man  was  about  ninety  years  old  when  he  conversed  with  Mr.  Perry. 
Will  this  point  to  a  foreign  pareuta^e  for  Dr.  Bishop? 

Dr.  John  Bishop's  daughter  married  Beujamin  Leathe,  both  of  Medford, 
April  26,  1738. 

The  doctor's  son,  John,  married  Abigail  Tufts,  daughter  of  Dr.  Simon  Tafts, 
the  physician  of  Medford. 

If  the  descendants  of  the  Leathe.  Bond  and  Tufts  families  have  any  records 
relatiug  to  Dr.  John  Bishop,  will  they  kiudly  address  the  subscriber,  who  has 
been  collecting  Bishop  and  Holmes  genealogical  material  for  thirty  years  past, 
with  the  intention  of  contributing  the  same,  without  charse,  to  the  public? 

I  will  cheerfully  <jive  twenty-five  dollars  for  the  proof  of  the  parentage  of 
Dr.  John  Bishop,  of  Bradford  and  Medford,  Mass. 

Lake  George,  Warren  County,  New  York.  Nathaniel  Holmes  Bishop. 


Thomas  Hubbard. — The  distinguished  Thomas  Hubbard,  whose  obituary 
you  have  re-published  in  the  Register,  vol.  47,  p.  480,  from  the  Massachusetts 
Gazette,  was  a  great-grandson  of  Richard  Hubbard  of  Salisbury,  concerning 
whose  emigration  an  entertaining  tradition  is  preserved  in  Eaton's  history  of 


214  JYotes  and  Queries.  [April, 

Candia.  His  -wife  was  probably  a  daughter  of  the  patriarchal  Richard  Goodale, 
as  Mr.  Goodale  had  a  daughter  oi  tiiat  name,  and  their  son  Richard  (the  Hon. 
Mr.  Hubbard's  grandfather)  spoke  in  two  deeds  of  "my  grandfather  Mr. 
Richard  Goodale."  Any  doubt  on  this  point  arises  from  the  fact  that  the  wife 
of  the  younger  Richard  Hubbard  was  a  granddaughter  of  Mr.  Goodale,  nee 
Martha  Allen,  sister  of  Peter  Ayer's  wife,  both  being  daughters  of  Mr.  William 
Allen,  whose  wife  was  Ann  Goodale. 

The  second  Richard  Hubbard  was  a  blacksmith,  and  lived  in  Salisbury  most 
of  his  life.  During  a  short  period,  including  the  years  1697-1700,  his  residence 
was  in  Boston,     lie  was  born  in  1015  and  lived  to  "old  age  in  Salisbury. 

In  1718  he  executed  an  interesting  conveyance  to  four  of  his  grandchildren  : 

"  Richard  Hubbard  son  of  my  son  John  Hubbard. 

"  Richard  Langdon  sou  of  my  daughter  Mary  Langdon. 

"  Thomas  Hubbard  son  of  my  sou  Joseph  Hubbard. 

"  Hubbard  Stevens  son  of  my  daughter  Dorothy  Stevens." 

The  land  conveyed  was  in  Amesbury,  and  in  the  year  1727  Messrs.  Langdon 
and  Thomas  Hubbard  joined  in  a  deed  conveying  away  their  half  interest.  Both 
were  residents  of  Boston  at  the  time,  one  described  as  a  merchant  and  the  other 
as  a  gentleman,  and  their  wives  Thankful  and  Mary  joined  to  release  their  rights 
of  dower. 

John  Hubbard  sariy  settled  in  Kingston,  N.  H.,  and  the  son  Richard  was 
grandfather  of  Dr.  John  Hubbard,  governor  of  Maine.  A  sister  of  Richard, 
named  Anna,  married  Rev. William  Tompson  of  Scarborough,  and  was  blessed 
with  three  children — William  Tompsou,  Esq.  of  Scarborough;  John,  the  urbane 
Rarson  Tompson  of  South  Berwick ;  and  Anna,  wife  of  Joseph  Gerrish.  who 
numbered  among  her  grandchildren  Governor  Goodwin  of  New  Hampshire. 

Mary  Langdon  was  the  progenitor  of  the  distinguished  Portsmouth  family  of 
the  name. 

Joseph  Hubbard  was  a  blacksmith  in  Boston.  The  records  show  his  mar- 
riage, Aug.  4,  1G0S,  to  Thankful  Brown  of  Sudbury,  and  the  birth  of  their  dis- 
tinguished son  in  1702. 

It  occurs  to  me  that  a  thorough" genealogy  of  the  posterity  of  Mr.  Richard 
Goodale  would  show  a  great  many  men  of  active  minds  and  commanding 
characters.  Charles  Thorntox  Libby. 

Portland,  Maine. 


King,  Hyde,  Stowell,  Sawyer.— The  Boston  Marriage  Records  contain  the 
intentiou  of  marriage  of  John  King  of  Boston  and  Mary  Stowell  of  Newton, 
Mass.,  published  April  2,  1718.  Papers  on  file  in  the  probate  ofiice,  Cambridge, 
show  that  John  Stowell,  of  Wtiertowh,  administered  on  the  estate  of  Benjamin 
Stowell,  of  Newtown,  in  1729.  He  certifies  to  having  given  notice  to  heirs 
Samuel  Stowell,  Ruth  O and  Mary  King. 

Richard  King,  of  Watertowu,  Mass.,  with  John  Stowell  and  Samuel  Stowell, 
were,  in  1733,  among  the  sixty  grantees  of  township'  No.  -4,  afterwards  known 
as  Paris,  Maine. 

Samuel  Hyde,  of  Newton,  married  Mary  King  of  Cambridge  in  17fk",  and 
became  a  grautee  in  township  No.  4  on  the  right  of  Richard  King,  of  Water- 
town. 

Joseph  Sawyer  had  a  sou,  Richard  K.  Sawyer,  born  June  25,  1779. 

1.  Is  anything  known  of  the  ancestry  of  John  King? 

2.  Who  were  the  parents  of  Mary  Stowell? 

3.  Is  there  any  record  of  the  names  of  the  children  of  John  and  Mary 
(Stowell)  King? 

i.  Who  was  Mary  King  who  married  Samuel  Hyde  and  what  relation  was 
she,  if  any,  to  Richard  King  of  Watertown? 

5.  Was  Richard  K.  Sawyer's  middle  name  King,  and  was  he  related  to 
Richard  Kins  of  Watertown? 

In  1797  Eliza  Southgate,  a  granddaughter  of  Richard  King,  just  mentioned, 
wrote  to  her  mother,  Mary  (King)  Southgate,  as  follows: 

"  I  believe  I  have  got  some  news  to  tell  you,  that  is  I  have  found  one  of  your 
acquaintance  and  relation ;  it  is  Mrs.  Sawyer;  before  bhe  was  married  she  was 
Polly  King  and  she  says  you  kept  at  their  house  when  you  were  in  Boston." 

tonkers,  New  York'    '  Ruixs  King. 


1894.] 


Notes  and  Queries. 


215 


Bott,  May,  Neal,  Smith  and  "Wiley. — Further  information  about  any  of 
the  following  persons  will  be  paid  for,  and  the  ancestry  of  Miles  Bott  or  John 
May  is  especially  desired. 

Miles  Bott  =*  Sarah  Neal.  John  May  =  Anness  Smith, 

prob.  born 
before  1735. 


More  chil.? 


I 
(?) 


Joel  Bott  =  Lucy  Mav, 
b.  17C1 ;  b.  1759." 

m.  17S6. 


Bott, 

lived  at  Richmond 

during  war.     Is 

said  to  have  been 

very  wealthy. 


Sarah, 

b.  in 

Roanoke  Co. 

Va.,  1795. 


dau. : 


Bobert  Wilev, 

had  (1840) 

estate  in 

Roanoke  Co., 

on  which 
are  said  to  have 

been  some 

150  slaves. 


Robert  Wiley, 

a  colonel  in 

Confederate  army. 

Removed  1SC5,  to 

Danville,  Ky. 


Oscar. 


Byron. 


Benjamin. 


I 
Lucy. 


I  I 
More 
chil.? 


dau. 


Address  J.  H.  Perein,  Lafayette,  Indiana. 


Ball. — The  following  note  has  been  prepared  by  a  descendant  of  John  Ball,  a 
Concord  freeman.  Does  any  person  bearing  the  name  of  Ball,  or  any  reader  of 
the  Register,  know  any  facts  concerning  the  personality  or  history  of  any 
individual  named  below?     Such  information  will  be  thankfully  received. 

1.  John  Ball,  a  Coucord  freeman,  brought  with  him  from  England,  where  he 
lived  iu  Wiltshire,  his  two  sons,  Nathaniel  and  John.  He  died  in  Concord  Oct. 
1,  1655. 

2.  John  Bali  married  Elizabeth  Pierce  of  Watertown,  Mass.,  and  had  five 
children.  By  a  second  marriage  with  Elizabeth  Fox  he  had  one  child.  He 
(John  Ball)  was  killed  by  Indians  at  Lancaster,  Mass.,  Sept.  10.  1675. 

3.  John  Ball,  born  1644,  and  married  Sarah  Bullard,  a  daughter  of  George 
Bullard.  of  Watertown.  They  had  seven  children.  He  was  by  trade  a  weaver, 
and  died  May  8,  1722. 

4.  James  Ball,  born  in  Watertown  1670.  He  married  Elizabeth  Eisk,  and 
died  in  1729  or  '30.  Number  of  children  not  known,  except  that  there  were  at 
least  two. 

5.  John  Ball,  born  in  Watertown  1097.  He  married  Lydia  Perry,  and  re- 
moved to  Worcester,  Mass..  where  he  died  in  1756.  At  least  four  children,  two 
of  whom,  with  the  mother,  were  the  executors  of  his  will. 

6.  Joseph  Ball,  born  in  Worcester  in  1750,  and  married  Lucretia  Stearns. 
He  removed  to  West  Bloomfieid,  N.  Y.,  in  1796,  and  died  there  in  1817.  He 
had  eight  children. 

7.  Isaac  Ball,  born  in  West  Bloomfieid  1785,  and  died  there  in  1850.  Was 
twice  married  and  had  six  children.  The  sixth  child,  Samuel  A.,  was  by  his 
second  wife  Lucinda  Adams  Ball.  Fra>k  W.  Ball. 

Leliog,  X.  T. 


Family  Record  of  Capt.  John  R.  Russell.— There  is  in  ray  possession  the 
tattered  family  record,  in  his  own  excellent  penmanship,  of  Cape.  John  Rhodes 
•ell  of  Marblehead,  whose  bronze  statue,  the  gift  of  Massachusetts,,  has 


Russ 


be.-n  placed  oil  the  Trenton  monument.  It  states  that  he  was  the  son  of  Cant. 
John  Rossell,  S.-nr.,  who  was  thus  designated  to  distinguish  from  his  son,  who, 
in  his  youth,  did  not  use  a  middle  name;  that  never  or  very  rarely  having  been 


• 


21 G  2Fotes  and  Queries.  [April, 

done  prior  to  the  present  century.  The  record  further  states  that  he  married, 
first,  on  June  ICth,  1778.  Lois,  daughter  of  Capt.  Samuel  Hooper  of  Marble- 
head,  and  that  she  died  in  April,  180i. 

Among  the  list  of  children  by  his  second  marriage  is  interpolated  this  state- 
ment, In  his  handwriting:  "Lois  Nicholson  was  born  Aug.  15,  17:32 — her  son 
Samuel  Hooper  -was  born  Nov.  23.  1704." 

A  gravestoue  iu  St.  Michael's  churchyard  at  Marblehead  reads  thus:  "Lois 
wife  of  Samuel  Hooper,  died  1772,  aged  30."  What  was  the  kinship  between 
the  above  Hoopers,  and  between  them  and  "  Merchant  John"  Hooper  and  his 
wife  Eunice,  who  was  daughter  of  Samuel  Hooper? 

Also  who  were  the  parents  and  other  ancestors  of  Capt.  John  Russell,  Senr., 
who  died  in  1811  aged  83?  The  Hoopers  and  Russells  were  prominent  families 
there  from  the  earliest  settlement.  The  early  church  and  town  records  of 
Marblehead  should  be  put  iuto  print  for  preservation  and  public  enlighteumeut. 

203  West  14th  St.,  New  York  City.  John  Russell  Kemble. 


Hallett — Pones. — Can  any  one  inform  me  when  "William  Ilallett  married 
Elizabeth  Fones-Winthrop-Feke?  She  was  the  daughter  of  Thomas  Foiie.-  of 
London,  Eng.  and  Anna  his  wife  a  daughter  of  Adam  Wiuthrop  of  Groton.  Eng. 
April  25,  1621),  she  married  Henry  Wiuthrop,  second  son  of  Gov.  John  Winthrop 
of  Massachusetts,  who  was  a  sou  of  Adam  Wiuthrop  above-mentioned.  Henry 
was  accidentally  drcv>^d  at  Salem,  Mass.,  on  the  day  following  his  arrival  iu 
New  England,  July  2,  1030:  his  wife,  with  the  only  child  of  this  marriage, 
Martha  Joanna,  aud  Margaret  the  wife  of  Gov.  John  Winthrop  of  Mass.,  ar- 
rived in  Boston.  Ma?s.  iu  November,  1031.  Elizabeth  Fones-Winthrop  married 
secondly  in  New  England  (probably  Boston),  before  the  year  1G3G,  Lieut.  Robert 
Feke  (Feake,  Fekes,  Feecx,  Feac'.i .  who  in  conjunction  with  Capt.  Daniel  Patrick, 
both  having  been  in  John  Underbill's  trocp,  invested  largely  in  lands  in  Connec- 
ticut, chiefly  in  and  about  Greenwich.  Early  in  1647  Robert  Feke  went  to  Eng- 
land, leaving  his  lands  in  charge  of  William  Hallett  (born  about  1G16  in  Dorset- 
shire, Eng.),  and  Mrs;  Feke.  In  August,  1647,  we  have  a  hint  at  an  improper 
intimacy  between  Hallett  and  Mrs.  Feke;  this  is  again  mentioned  in  March, 
1648;  in  April,  1G43,  Mrs.  Hallett  is  with  child,  and  in  July  of  the  same  year 
there  is  again  some  mention  as  to  the  validity  of  her  marriage  with  Hallett. 
(See  Proc.  Mass.  Hist.  Soc,  2d  Serv,  vol.  6,"pp-2-13;  Winthrop's  New  Eng- 
land; Some  Old  Puritan  Love  Letters,  pp.  53,  05.  131,  by  J.  H.  Twichell;  N.  E. 
Gen.  and  Bio.  Record,  vol.  11  ;  Doc.  Col,  Hist,  of  N.  Y. ;  Cal.  N.  Y.  Hist.  Man.) 
Any  information  that  might  lead  to  the  discovery  of  the  date  of  this  marriage 
would  be  very  welcome;  also  any  information  regarding  the  life  of  William 
Hallett  previous  to  1647.   ,  John  L.  Delaeield. 

475  Fifth  Ave.,  Xew  York  City. 

Mart  Valentine,  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Elizabeth  (Gooch)  Valentine, 
born  Nov.  14th,  1747,  married  Joseph  Ballard,  and  lived  in  Vermont.  See 
"  Daniels's  History  of  Oxford,"  page  380,  Note  1.  Also,  "  Valentines  of  Amer- 
ica," page  124.  in  which  the  author  relates  that  Mary  Valentine  married  "  Zac- 

cheus  Ballard,  and  that  Elizabeth  married  a Ballard,  wherein  the  names 

of  Mary  and  Elizabeth  are  reversed.  As  parties  still  living  know  that  Zaccheus 
married  Elizabeth,  would  like  to  be  put  in  communication  with  the  descendants 
of  above-named  Joseph  and  Mary  (Valentine)  Ballard,  or  receive  any  informa- 
tion relative  to  them.  E.  S.  Ballard. 

Davenport,  Iowa. 


Owen  and  Gilmore — G'cen. — Josias  Owen  (son  of  Josias,  son  of  John,  of 
Windsor)  settled  in  Hebron,  Conn.  He  married  Mary  Hosford,  Dec.  31st, 
1698;  one  of  their  sons,  Noah,  was  born  May  14th.  1701  "(Stiles's  Hist,  of  Win- 
sor).  I  shall  be  grateful  for  any  information  concerning  this  Noah  Owen  and 
his  descendants,  especially  anything  that  connects  him  with  Noah  Owen,  born  , 
in  1755  in  Colchester  or  Hebron. 

Gilmour. — Elizabeth  Gilmour  married  at  Castleton,   Vt.,   Feb.  1797:  Noah 

Owen.     Her  father  was  Jonathan  Gilmour,  a  descendant  of Gilmour,  one 

of  the  Scotch  Irish  settlers  of  Londonderry.     Is  there  any  record  of   this 
family?  Elizabeth  H.  Fitch. 

S3S  Logan  Ave.,  Cleveland,  O. 


1894.]  -  Notes  and  Queries.  217 

Births,  exact  dates  wanted  : — 
Samuel  Hanson,  of  Delaware,  1740. 

Mary  Hanxhurst,  wife  of  Robert  Coles,  died  1656. 

Susanna  Holmes,      "      "  Valentine  Wightmau,  of  Groton,  1703. 

Ichabod  Hopkins,  of  Oyster  Bay, 

died  25  Jan.  1730. 
William  Hopkins,  of  Providence,  1616. 

Dinah  Hopkins,  wife  of  Nehemiah  Merritt,  1740. 

William  Hough,  of  New  London,  1645. 

Mary  Hughes,  "      "  John  Scott,  of  Spencertowu,  N.  Y., 

died  13  July,  1805. 
William  Hyde,  of  Hartford,  "       6  Jan.  1681. 

Bhinebedc,  N.  Y.  Douglas  Merritt. 

Coxstaxtixe  Piiipfs. — We  all  know  that  the  peerages  long  printed  the  ances- 
try of  Sir  Constantine  Phipps  (Lord  High  Chancellor  of  Ireland,  1810),  as 
derived  collaterally  from  our  Sir  William  Phips.  His  grandson  was  the  first 
Baron  Mulgrave,  an  Irish  peerage,  ancestor  of  the  Marquis  of  Normandy.  But 
in  Notes  and  Queries  for  Oct.  9,  1875,  (5th  S.  IV.  237),  Alfred  S.  Gatty  wrote 
that  he  had  some  papers  connected  with  a  family  of  Phipps  of  Highgreen,  in 
the  parish  of  Ecclesfield,  Co.  York,  dated  1777. 

Therein  it  appeared  that  George  Phipps  of  Highgreen  was  a  brother  of  Sir 
Constantine  P.  and  that  George  had  a  daughter  Eliza  who  married  Dr.  Thomas 
Fairfax,  and  left  daughters  Prances  Cotton  and  Elizabeth  Middleton,  who  sold 
certain  lands  to  their  cousin  Samuel  Phipps  of  Lincoln's  Iun. 

Has  this  genealogical  clue  ever  been  followed  up,  to  ascertain  the  true  line  of 
Sir  Constantine  Phipps  and  the  possible  origiu  of  our  Sir  William? 

W.  H.  W. 


Samuel  Sharpe. — Bancroft,  in  his  History  of  the  United  States,  vol.  1st, 
page  279,  referring  to  the  Company  of  Massachusetts  Bay,  writes  :  "  The  pas- 
sengers for  Salem  included  six  shipwrights,  and  an  experienced  surveyor,  who 
was  to  give  advice  on  the  proper  site  "for  a  fortified  towu,  and  with  Samuel 
Sharpe,  master-gunner  of  ordnance,  was  to  muster  all  such  as  lived  under  the 
government,  both  planters  and  servants,  and  at  appointed  times  to  exercise 
them  in  the  use  of  arms."  I  would  like  to  know  more  of  this  Samuel  Sharpe; 
where  he  lived,  maiden  name  of  his  wife,  names  of  his  children,  date  of  their 
birth,  and  who  and  when  they  married.  Was  he  the  ancestor  of  Mr.  Sharpe 
whose  widow,  Deborah  Sharpe,  married  Joseph  Gannett  about  1GS2? 

New  Bedford,  Mass.  Warren  Ladd. 


Asa  Adams,*  third  child  and  second  son  of  Samuel  and  Phebe  (Pellet)  Adams 
(Samuel,*  David,4  Hervey,3  Edward,2  Hervey1  the  immigrant,  of  Braintree, 
Mass.  Colony),  was  born  in  Canterbury,  Windham  County,  Connecticut,  Nov.  17, 
1766.  He  married  successively  two  sisters  of  one  Allen  Family,  Hanover,  Conn., 
and  with  the  second  and  their  children  is  said  to  have  moved  to  Greene,  Che- 
nango County,  N.  Y.,  formerly  called  the  "Genesee  Country."  Can  any  one 
tell  aught  of  the  family? 

Also  of  Uezekiah,  a  brother  of  Asa.  He  was  also  born  in  Canterbury,  some 
ten  years  later.     "  Went  West,"  is  his  brief  history  in  Conn.     Address, 

29  Division  Street,  Providence,  B.  I.  John  Q.  Adams. 


Mortox. — Who  were  the  parents,  and  in  the  male  line  remoter  lineal  ancestors, 
of  Joseph  Morton,  who  came  to  Annapolis  County,  Nova  Scotia,  in  1760,  and 
having  returned  to  Massachusetts  to  settle  his  affairs  there,  took  ship  at  Boston 
for  return  in  company  with  a  friend,  and  on  engaging  in  a  friendly  wrestling 
match  with  the  latter  on  the  deck  of  the  vessel,  fell  overboard  into  "the  harbor 
with  his  companion  and  was  drowned,  his  companion  escaping?  Whom  did  he 
marry?  Was  he  a  descendant  of  Morton,  the  London  agent  of  the  Pilgrims  at 
Leyden  who  came  over  in  1623?  A.  W.  Savart. 

Annapolis,  N.  S. 

vol.  xlviii.  20 


' 


218  JVotes  and  Queries.  [April, 

Fuller. — Samuel  Fuller  of  Barnstable  came  in  '•  Mayflower,"  married  Jane 
Lothrop,  1035:  his  sou  Samuel  baptized  1037-8,  married  Anna,  daughter  of 
Capt.  Matthew  Fuller,  and  died  about  1690.  Samuel  Jr.  and  wife  Anna  had 
Matthew,  married  Patience  Young  25  Feb.  1692-3. 

Joseph  married  Thankful  Blossom  and  had  Benjamin.  This  Benjamin  mar- 
ried   aud  had : 

Temperance.  1702,  married  Joseph  Blossom  1737. 

Hannah,  170-1,  married  Rev.  Joseph  Bourne  1713. 

John,  17015,  married  Marian  Nye  1728. 

James,  1711,  married  Temperance  Phinney. 

The  undersigned  desires  to  know  the  maiden  name  of  the  wife  of  the  above 
Beniamin  Fuller,  and  will  pay  ten  dollars  for  the  information. 

31  Xeto  .St.,  New  York  City.  Eow.  L.  Norton. 


Thf.  Fiske  Family.— In  editing  the  transcript  of  the  parish  papers  of  Cratfield, 
Suffolk,  England,  made  by  the  late  Rev.  VV.  Holland,  M.A.,  Rector  of  Hunting- 
field,  it  became  necessary  to  examine  the  original  documents.  Among  them  I 
found  an  indenture  of  the  register  for  the  year  1565,  containing  anions  entries 
of  the  Plimpton,  Mills.  Baker,  Grimsby,  Newson,  Gilberde,  Brokbanke,  Saun- 
ders, Button.  Curdie  and  Long  families.  ••William  Fyske,  sonne  of  Jefrey  Fyske 
and  of  Christian  his  wyfe  was  baptized  the  last  daye  of  September."  "in  1566 
"William  Fyske  aud  Jefery  Fj  ske  were  contributors  of  xx  s.  aud  x  s.  respectively 
towards  the  enfranchisement  of  the  parish  lands.  J.  J.  Raven. 

Fressingfield  liectory,  England. 


Thomas  Broad — Married  Rebecca .  Would  like  any  information  re- 
lating to  them,  their  children  or  ancestors,  with  dates. 

Dr.  Nathaniel  Tolman  was  born  August  3,  1716,  in  Needham.  He  married 
November  21),  1743,  Mehitable  Dewing.  They  lived  in  Needham.  When  and 
where  did  he  die? 

His  great-grandfather,  Thomas  Tolman,  married  Experience .     Would 

like  her  last  name  aud  date  of  marriage;  also  dates  of  birth  of  both. 

31  Green  St.,  Lynn,  Mass.  Mrs.  G\  J.  Pickford. 


Hazard. — Information  is  wanted  concerning  Thomas  Hazard,  a  native  of 
Wales,  Eng.,  who  in  1036  was  admitted  to  freemanship  at  Boston,  Mass.  In 
about  1052  he  removed  to  Newtown,  Long  Island,  N.  Y.,  where  he  became  one 

of  the  first  magistrates.     He  married  Martha and  had  several  children, 

one  of  whom,  Jonathan,  lived  at  Newtown  and  left  a  large  number  of  descend- 
ants. Robert,  another  son,  settled  in  Rhode  Island,  and  originated  the  Hazards 
so  famous  in  that  State.  Joseph  L.  Delafleld. 

475  FtjU  Are.,  Xcto  York  City. 


Curow  or  Ccroe. — Robert  Curoe,  baker,  Whitebread  Alley,  Boston  tax  list, 
1823.  He  had  wife  Jane,  and  a  son  William  Curow,  who  died  12  April  1S38, 
aged  16  yrs.  4  mos.  and  was  buried  in  South  B.  Y.  Boston.  He  has  also  a  dan. 
Frances  Maria,  bapt.  at  Cathedral,  6  June  1827,  sponsors  Thomas  Penderson 
and  Margaret  Root.  His  widow  m.  5  Oct.  1834,  James  Gordon  of  Boston.  His 
daughter  Frances  M.  m.  at  NewYork,  23  May  1840,  Edward  F.  Mayuard  of  Boston. 
Has  any  one  met  the  name  of  Curow  on  any  record?  He  is  said  to  have  been  a 
Scotchman  or  Scotch-Irishman  from  the  north  of  Ireland;  I  am  told  that  Cul- 
ross  is  pronounced  Curow.     Is  that  so?  \Y.  H.  W. 


Dr.  Daxiel  Gilbert  married  Jan.  17,  1820,  Susan  D.  Lanman,  born  Aug.  1, 
1807,  died  Aug.  5,  1831.  They  had  one  child:  Augusta  G.,  b.  Nov.  17,  1826. 
What  was  the  ancestral  line  of  Susan  D.  Lanman,  aud  has  she  descendants  liv- 
ing? Mrs.  M.  P.  Ferris. 

Garden  City,  X.  Y. 


1894. ]  .  Notes  and  Queries.  219 

Joanna  Brown. — Can  any  one  give  information  as  to  the  parentage  of  Joanna 
Brown  who  married  Daniel  Harris  of  Roxbury  in  16S2?  W. 

Hartford,  Ct. 

Clarke.— If  any  of  yonr  readers  can  give  the  ancestry  of  Audley  Clarke  of 
Newport,  II.  I.,  who  married  Margaret  Hulin  Feb.  7th.  1760,  it  will  be  greatly 
appreciated  bv  Charles  P.  Brittox. 

28  New  Street,  X.  Y. 


Brackett. — William,  of  Capt.  John  Mason's  Laconia  Company.  Tvho  reached 
Portsmouth,  N.  II.,  in  1630.  Any  information  as  to  where  he  lived  before 
he  left  England,  etc.,  would  be  appreciated.  R.  L.  B. 

Bensonhurst,  X.  Y. 

Mason.— I  should  like  information  regarding  the  families  of  the  wives  of  three 
generations  of  Peter  Mason.  Mary  Etobart,  who  married  Peter  Mason  July 
8th,  1703.  Margaret,  daughter  of  Jonathan  Fanning  and  Elizabeth  "Way,  mar- 
ried Peter  Mason  in  174L  Elizabeth  Farnum,  who  married  Peter  Mason  in 
Salisbury,  Ct.,  May  26,  1774s.  L.  B.  Mason. 

New  York  City. 


Wall.— I  would  like  to  hear  from  anyone  who  can  give  data  concerning  the 
ancestry  of  Betsy  Wall,  born  at  Bristol,  Lincoln  County.  Me.,  March  25,  1768. 
She  married  Nathaniel  Bryant  of  Noblesboro'  Oct.  1,  17J5. 

Buffalo.  X.  Y.  Percy  Bryan/t. 

Mary  Kingsley.— I  should  like  information  regarding  the  family  of  Mary 
Kingsley,  whp  married  June  16,  1763,  Enoch,  son  of  Josiah  Clark  and  Thankful 
Sheldon.  Also  regarding  their  son  Enoch's  wife's  family,  Abigail  Kirkland, 
whom  he  married  December  6,  1S01.  N.  M.  K. 


Abijah  Adams. — Can  any  one  give  the  ancestry  and  descendants  of  Abijah 
Adams  of  Killingly,  Windham  County,  Conn.,  some  three  generations  aso? 
Providence,  B.  I.  J.  Q.  Adams. 


Historical  Intelligence. 

Heraldry.— The  Societe  Beige  de  Libraire,  Bruxelles,  Belgique,  will  pub- 
lish the  Dictionnaire  des  Figures  Heraldiqup,  par  le  Comte  Theodore  de  Renesse, 
membre  Suppleaut  du  Conseil  Heraldique.  It  is  practically  a  dictionary  of  heraldic 
figures  with  the  names  of  the  bearers,  somewhat  similar  to  the  "  Papworth 
Ordinary  of  British  Armorials,"  but  founded  on  the  famous  "  Armorial  General" 
by  the  late  J.  B.  Rietstap,  in  which  the  surnames  are  arranged  alphabetically; 
these  two  volumes,  containing  about  105,000  coats  of  arras,  are  at  present  the 
most  important  work  on  general  European  heraldry:  and  the  forthcoming  dic- 
tionary, which  may  be  considered  a  companion,  will  fill  a  much  needed  place  in 
European  heraldic  "bibliography. 

The  society  will  issue  this  work  in  about  fifteen  numbers,  each  number  con- 
taining about  one  hundred  two-column  pases,  with  one  plate  of  arms;  the  cost 
of  each  number  being  four  francs.  Subscription,  will  be  received  by  Monsieur 
Oscar  Schepens,  Director  of  the  Society  at  Bruxelles. 

A.  D.  Weld  French. 


The  list  of  British  officers  serving  in  America,  1755  to  1774.—  This 
list  has  called  out  information  from  the  descendants  of  these  officers.  It  is 
to  be  hoped  that  this  may  lead  to  a  regular  compilation,  giving  more  in  detail 
the  services  and  army  records  of  these  ofiicers,  both  in  America  and  elsewhere. 


220  _  Notes  and  Queries.  [April, 

The  compiler  of  the  list  has  expressed  the  wish  that  any  person  who  can  con- 
tribute such  information  will  send  it  to  hitn  for  record  and  preservation.  The 
address  is  Mr.  Worthingtoa  C.  Ford,  Metropolitan  Club,  Washington,  D.  C. 

Collections  of  the  Connecticut  Historical  Society. — The  second  volume 
of  the  Collections  has  for  some  years  been  "  out  of  print  "  and  scarce.  A  num- 
ber of  copies  have  lately  been  found  in  the  loft  of  a  bindery — where  they  had 
remained  for  over  twenty  years.  The  volume  contains  J.  H.  Trumbull's 
paper  on  Ahronquin  Geographical  Names;  Papers  on  the  Church  Controversy, 
Hartford,  1656-59;  Correspondence  of  Silas  Dcane,  177-4-76.  The  Society  will 
be  pleased  to  know  of  other  historical  societies  and  libraries  which  lack  this 
volume.  Frank  B.  Gay,  Secretary. 

Ha  Word,  Conn. 


Suffolk  Manorial  Families. — The  first  part  of  the  work  of  Joseph  J.  Mus- 
kett,  Esq.,  under  this  title,  announced  by  us  in  the  Register  for  October,  1891, 
page  315,  we  learn  is  in  print,  and  will  soou  be  issued.  Among  pedigrees  will 
be  found  that  of  Winfhrop  of  Suffolk  and  America,  together  with  wills  and 
other  evidences.  The  second  part  will  give,  amongst  others.  Downing  of  Suf- 
folk and  New  England;  aud  the  third  part  Burroughs  of  Suffolk  and  New  Eng- 
land. Many  of  the  pedigrees  in  the  first  and  second  parts  will  be  altogether 
new  to  genealogists.  The  address  of  Mr.  Muskett  is  11  Talbot  Road,  South 
Tottenham,  London,  to  whom  subscriptions  and  remittances  should  be  addressed. 


Sparhawk.— The  Philadelphia  Repository  and  Weekly  Register  for  1803: 
V  Deaths.  May  14,  1803,  Dr.  John  Sparhawk  aged  72  a  native  of  Massachusetts, 
but  has  resided  in  this  city  upwards  of  forty  years." 


Remich.— An  interesting  accouut  of  the  copy  of  the  Landing  of  the  British 
troops  in  Boston,  1768,  owned  by  the  Essex  Institute  and  mentioned  in  the 
Register,  Vol.  47,  p.  -476,  may  be  found  in  the  Essex  Institute  Collections, 
Vol.  V.  W.  K.  Watkixs. 


Genealogies  in  Preparation. — Persons  of  the  several  names  are  advised  to 
furnish  the  compilers  of  these  genealogies  with  records  of  their  own  families 
and  other  information  which  they  think  rnay  be  useful.  We  would  suggest  that 
all  facts  of  interest  illustrating  family  his'tory  or  character  be  communicated, 
especially  service  under  the  U.  S.  Government,  the  holding  of  other  offices, 
graduation  from  college  or  professional  schools,  occupation,  with  places  and 
dates  of  births,  marriages,  residence  and  death.  fcWhen  there  are  more  than  one 
christian  name  they  should  all  be  given  in  full  if  possible.  No  initials  should 
be  used  wheu  the  full  names  are  known. 

Bonrdman.— A  Genealogy  of  the  Boardman  Family,  descendants  of  Samuel 
Boreman  of  Wethersfield,  is  beina;  compiled  by  Miss  Charlotte  Goldthwaite  of 
Hartford,  Ct.  Communications  from  members  of  the  family  and  others  inter- 
ested are  desired. 

Bazzdl.— Rev.  H.  L.  Buzzell  of  Fairhaven,  Mass.,  is  compiling  a  genealogy 
of  the  Buzzell,  Buswell,  Boswell  and  Bussed  FamUies  in  America,  and  will  be 
glad  of  any  items  relating  to  these  families. 

Cozcles. — A  genealogy  in  preparation  by  Capt.  C.  D.  Cowles,  U.  S.  A.,  141  P 
St.,  Washington,  D.  C. 

Dodge.— The  Genealoarv  of  the  Dodge  Family  of  Essex  Co.,  Mass.,  by  Joseph 
T.  Dodge  of  Madison,  Wis.,  is  in  press  and  to  be  published  in  May. 

Lamborn.—  The  Genealogy  of  the  Lamborn  Family,  which  has  been  in  prepar- 
ation for  the  past  seven  years,  is  now  in  press  and  will  be  ready  for  delivery  in 
July  of  the  present  year.  The  large  number  of  descendants  fillins  prominent 
public  and  private  positions  of  honor  in  all  parts  of  this  country  will  make  thi3 
a  desirable  book  of  reference  in  public  libraries.     Price,  $6.00. 

Lanman.— Sirs.  M.  P.  Ferris,  Garden  City,  N.  Y.,  has  in  preparation  a  history 
of  the  Lanman  Family.  Correspondence  of  descendants  desired,  and  any  notes 
bearing  on  Lanman  or  Landman. 


• 


1894. ]  '  Societies  and  their  Proceedings.  221 


SOCIETIES    AND    THEIR    PROCEEDINGS. 

New-England  Historic  Genealogical  Society. 

Boston,  Massachusetts,  January  3,  1S04. — The  annual  meeting  was  held  iu  the 
hall  of  Boston  University,  12  Somerset  street,  this  afternoon  at  three  o'clock. 
Iu  the  absence  of  President  Claflin  and  the  vice-presidents,  the  Hon.  Dr. 
Samuel  A.  Green  -was  chosen  president  pro  tern.  On  taking  the  chair,  Dr.  Green 
made  a  brief  address. 

The  monthly  report  of  the  Council  was  presented,  and  seven  resident  members 
■were  elected. 

The  business  of  the  annual  meeting  was  then  taken  up,  and  the  reports  of  the 
Council,  the  treasurer,  the  trustees  of  the  Kidder  Fund,  the  corresponding 
secretary,  the  historiographer  and  the  librarian  were  presented  and  accepted. 

Hon.  Thomas  Weston,  chairman  of  the  nominating  committee,  reported  a  list 
of  candidates  for  oilicers  for  tne  ensuing  year,  and  three  members  of  the 
Council  for  the  term  ending  in  ISO 7.  A  nomination  paper,  signed  by  twenty 
members,  naming  one  cand'date  for  the  Council,  was  presented,  and  his  name 
was  added  to  the  list.  Messrs.  C.  B.  Tillinghast  and  Warren  Hapgood  were 
appoiuted  tellers.  A  ballot  was  taken,  and  all  of  the  officers  and  two  members 
of  the  council  reported  by  the  nominating  committee  were  elected.  The  candi- 
date for  the  Council  on  the  nomination  paper  was  also  elected. 

The  annual  address  of  the  president,  the  Hon.  William  Claflin,  LL.D.,  was 
read  in  his  absence  by  the  recording  secretary. 

John  T.  Hassam,  A.M.,  chairman  of  the  special  committee  on  the  Preserva- 
tion of  the  Probate  Files  of  Suffolk  County,  made  a  report  which  was  accepted 
and  ordered  to  bo  printed  with  the  proceedings. 

Hon.  Thomas  Weston  offered  resolutions  that  the  Society  puts  on  record  its 
sense  of  indebtedness  to  Hon.  Joseph  B.  Walker,  the  "Rev.  Elisha  B.  Andrews. 
D.D.,  LL.D.,  vice-presidents,  and  John  T.  Hassam,  A.M.,  counsellor,  who  this 
year  retire  from  office. 

On  motion  of  Frank  E.  Bradish,  A.M..  the  Society  invited  the  Corporation, 
Instructors  and  students  of  Boston  University,  iu  the  hall  of  which  their  meet- 
ings are  held,  to  attend  the  stated  meetings. 

It  was  voted  that  the  president's  address,  the  several  annual  reports,  the 
necrology  and  the  proceedings  at  this  meeting  be  referred  to  the  Council,  with 
full  authority  to  print  them. 

The  following  are  the  oilicers  for  1S94  : 

President. — William  Cailin,  LL.D.,  of  Boston,  Massachusetts. 

Vice-Presidents.— Walbridire  Abner  Field,  A.M.,  of  Boston,  Massachusetts; 
Joseph  Williamson,  A.M.,  of  Belfast,  Me. :  Frederick  Smvth,  A.M..  of  Manches- 
ter, N.  II.;  James  Barrett.  LL.D.,  of  Rutland,  Vt. ;  Herbert  Warren  Ladd, 
A.M.,  of  Providence,  R.  I.:  Edward  Elbridge  Salisbury,  LL.D.,  of  New  Haven, 
Conn. 

Recording  Secretary.— George  Augustus  Gordon,  A.M.,  of  Soinerville,  Mass. 

Corresponding  Secretary. — William  Stanford  Stevens,  A.M.,  M.D.,  of  Boston, 
Mass. 

Treasurer. — Benjamin  Barstow  Torrey,  of  Hanover,  Mass. 

Librarian.— John  Ward  Dean,  A.M.,  of  Medford,  Mass. 

The  following  are  members  of  the  Council  for  189-t : 

Ex  Officiis.— William  Claflin,  LL.D. :  Walbridge  A.  Field,  LL.D.;  George  A. 
Gordon,  A.M. ;  Benjamin  B.  Torrey;  William  S.  Stevens,  A.  M.,  M.D. ;  John 
W.  Dean,  A.M. 

For  the  term  ending  in  1895. — William  Tracy  Eustis,  of  Boston,  Mass. ; 
David  Greene  Haskins,  Jr.,  A.M.  LL.B.,  of  Cambridge,  Mass. ;  Newton  Talbot, 
of  Boston.  Mass. 

For  the  term  ending  in  1896.— Ezra  Hoyt  Byington,  D.D.,  of  Newton,  Mass. ; 
Charles  Carleton  Coffin,  A.M.,  of  Boston,  Mass.;  Don  Gleason  Hill,  LL.B.^of 
Dedham,  Mass. 

VOL.  xlviii.  20* 


222  -     Societies  and  their  Proceedings.  [April, 

For  the  term  ending  in  1S97. — Francis  Everett  Blake,  of  Boston,  Mass. ; 
George  Kuhn  Clarke,  LL.B.,  of  Xeedham,  Mass.;  Albert  Alonzo  Folsom,  of 
Brookline,  Mass. 

February  7.— A  stated  meeting  was  held  in  the  hall  of  Boston  University 
this  afternoon  at  three  o'clock.  Rear  Admiral  George  E.  Belknap,  U.S.X..  was 
chosen  chairman  of  the  meeting. 

A  paper  by  William  C.  Todd,  A.M.,  entitled  "Rev.  Stephen  Peabody  and 
"Wife  of  Atkinson,  X.  H.,"  was  read  by  the  secretary,  Mr.  Todd  being  necessa- 
rily absent. 

Resolutions  of  respect  to  the  memory  of  the  Hon.  William  Gaston,  LL.D., 
a  member  of  the  Society,  were  passed. 

Reports  of  the  Council,  the  librarian  and  the  corresponding  secretary  were 
presented. 

Five  resident  members  and  one  corresponding  member  were  elected. 

March  7. — A  stated  meeting  was  held  at  the  hall  of  Boston  University  this 
afternoon  at  three  o'clock.  Charles  Sidney  Ensign,  LL.B.,  was  chosen  chair- 
man. 

Rev.  Ezra  Hoyt  Byington,  D. D.,  of  Xewton,  read  a  paper  on  "The  Puritan 
Party  in  England."     Remarks  followed  from  several  members. 

Reports  of  the  Council,  the  corresponding  secretary,  the  librarian  and  the 
historiographer  were  presented. 

Three  resident  members  and  one  corresponding  member  were  elected. 

An  amendment  to  the  By-Laws,  reported  at  the  annual  meeting,  was  adopted. 

Old  Colony  Historical  Society. 

Taunton,  Mass.,  January  1G.  1S04. — The  fortieth  annual  meeting  was  held 
this  day  in  Historical  Hall,  the  president,  Rev.  S.  Hopkins  Emery,  D.D.,  in 
the  chair.  The  president  delivered  a  brief  address,  and  read  biographical 
sketches  of  deceased  members. 

Reports  of  the  auditor  and  the  corresponding  secretary  were  presented. 

Rev.  Ezra  H.  Byington,  D.D.,  of  Xewton,  Mass.,  read  a  paper  on  "  The 
Pilgrim  and  the  Puritan  in  Early  New-England  History." 

Mr.  Edwin  M.  Hills,  chairman  of  the  nominating  committee,  reported  the 
following  list  of  candidates  for  officers  and  directors.  An  election  followed, 
and  all  of  the  candidates  were  elected. 

President. — Rev.  S.  Hopkins  Emery,  D.D.,  of  Taunton. 

Vice-Presidents. — Hon.  Edmund  II." Bennett,  LL.D.,  of  Taunton;  Rev.  William 
L.  Chaffin,  of  Xorth  Easton. 

Becordintj  Secretary  and  Librarian. — Capt.  John  W.  D.  Hall,  of  Taunton. 

Corresponding  Secretary. — Hon.  Charles  A.  Reed,  of  Taunton. 

Treasurer. — John  F.  Montgomery,  Esq.,  of  Taunton. 

Auditor.— Capt.  George  A.^Washburn,  of  Taunton. 

Historiographer.— Edmund  W.  Porter,  Esq.,  of  Taunton. 

Directors. — Hon.  William  E.  Fuller,  of  Taunton;  Gen.  Ebenezer  W.  Peirce, 
of  Freetown;  Henry  M.  Lovering,  Esq.  of  Taunton;  Hou.  John  S.  Brayton,  of 
Fall  River;  Elisha  C.  Leonard,  Esq.,  of  Xew  Bedford;  James  M.  Cushman, 
Esq.,  of  Taunton. 

Capt.  John  W.  D.  Hall,  the  librarian,  made  his  annual  report,  with  a  list  of 
donations. 

Rhode  Island  Historical  Society. 

Providence,  Tuesday,  December  12,  1S98. — A  stated  meeting  was  held  this 
evening  at  eight  o'clock  in  the  Society's  Cabinet  in  Waterman  street. 

Rev.  Dr.  George  H.  Clark,  of  Hartford,  Ct.,  read  a  paper  on  "Rev.  John 
Wheelwright,  the  First  Heretic  of  the  Boston  Pulpit."  Rev.  Dr.  Clark  is  a 
descendant  of  Wheelwright. 

January  9, 1S94.— The  Seventy-Second  Annual  Meeting  was  held  this  evening, 
the  president,  Gen.  Horatio  Rogers,  in  the  chair. 

President  Rogers  made  a  brief  address,  congratulating  the  Society  on  its 
prosperous  condition. 

Amos  Perry,  LL.D.,  the  librarian,  reported  that  284  volumes,  1324  pamphlets 
and  184  other  articles  had  been  received  during  the  year. 


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The  treasurer  reported  the  annual  receipts  to  be  §4,075.85,  and  the  expendi- 
tures $4,656.03,  leaving  a  balance  of  $19.7,9  in  the  treasury. 

Reports  were  also  received  from  the  committees  on  the  grounds  and  buildings, 
on  the  library,  and  on  publication. 

The  annua!  election  took  place  and  resulted  as  follows: 

President. — Horatio  Rogers. 

Vice-Preside nts. — George  M.  Carpenter,  E.  Benjamin  Andrews. 

Secretary  and  Librarian. — Amos  Terry. 

Treasurer. — Richmond  P.  Everett. 

Nominating  Committee. — Albert  V.  Jencks,  James  E.  Cranston,  Edward  I. 
Nickerson. 

Library  Committee. — William  D.  Ely,  Howard  W.  Preston,  Amos  Perry. 

Lecture  Committee. — Amos  Perry.  Reuben  A.  Guild,  William  B.  Weeden. 

Publication  Committee. — Prof.  W.  H.  Munroe,  James  G.  Vose,  Amasa  M. 
Eaton. 

Committee  on  Grounds  and  Buildings. — Edwin  Barrows,  Isaac  II.  Southwick, 
Jr.,  Isaac  C.  Bates. 

Committee  on  Geneaological  Researches. — Henry  E.  Turner,  John  O.  Austin, 
George  T.  Hart. 

Committee  on  Necrology. — Wilfred  H.  Munroe,  Samuel  II.  Webb,  Amos  Perry. 

Finance  Committee. — Robert  H.  I.  Goddard,  Charles  H.  Smith,  Richmond  P. 
Everett. 

Audit  Committee. — Lewis  J.  Chace,  James  Burdick,  Ferdinand  A.  Lincoln. 

Procurators.— For  Newport — George  C.  Mason.  Wnonsocket —  Latimer  W. 
Ballou.  Faictucktt — Samuel  M.  Conaut.  North  Kingstown — David  S.  Baker,  Jr. 
Hopkinton — George  H.  Olney. 

Connecticut  Historical  Society. 

Hartford,  March  6,  1S94. — At  the  stated  monthly  meeting  held  this  evening, 
the  Librarian  presented  a  report  upon  the  library  of  Dr.  D.  Williams  Patterson, 
late  of  Newark  Valley,  N.  Y.,  and  formerly  of  Winstcd,  Conn.,  which  bad  been 
recently  acquired  by  purchase  for  the  sum  of  85,000.  It  includes  about  1100 
books  and  1100  pamphlets,  besides  a  large  number  of  manuscripts.  The  collec- 
tion adds  over  300  printed  genealogies  and  some  200  volumes  of  local  history  to 
those  already  on  the  Society's  shelves,  the  history  being  largely  that  of  New 
England,  New  York,  and  the  Wyoming  country.  From  the  pamphlets  over  800 
are  additions  to  the  historical  collection. 

At  the  same  meeting,  Mrs.  Kate  B.  Knight,  President  of  the  Connecticut 
Woman's  Board  for  the  Centennial  Exposition,  presented  to  the  Society  a  col- 
lection of  writings  by  Connecticut  women  which  had  been  exhibited  at  Chicago. 

The  paper  of  the  evening  was  by  the  Rev.  W.  de  L.  Love,  on  "  Samson  Occom 
and  the  Christian  Indians  "of  Connecticut,  and  the  removal  to  the  Oneida  coun- 
try." 

Maine  Genealogical  Society. 

Portland  January  17,  1894. — The  annual  meeting  Avas  held  this  evening  in 
Baxter  Hall,  the  president.  Hon.  Marquis  F.  King,  in  the  chair. 

Dr.  Albion  K.  P.  Meserve  read  a  paper  dealing,  for  the  most  part,  with  the 
history  of  Monument  Square  in  Portland. 

President  King  made  some  remarks  on  the  work  and  prospects  of  the  Society. 

Three  active  members  and  one  corresponding  member  were  elected. 

Frederick  O.  Conant,  the  secretary,  read  his  annual  report. 

Millard  F.  Hicks,  the  treasurer,  made  his  report.  The  annual  receipts 
amounted  to  8456.37,  and  the  expenditures  to  $281.15,  leaving  a  balance  of 
$175.22  on  hand.  • 

Joseph  F.  Thompson,  the  librarian,  reported  the  additions  to  the  library 
during  the  year.     There  are  now  925  volumes. 

The  following  officers  were  elected  for  the  ensuing  year: 

President. — Marquis  F.  King. 

Vice-President. — Dr.  A.  K.  P.  Meserve. 

Secretary. — Frederick:  O.  Conaut. 

Treasurer.— Millard  F.  Hicks. 

Librarian.— Joseph  P.  Thompson. 

The  deaths  of  seven  members  were  reported. 


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224         Necrology  of  Historic  Genealogical  Society.  [April, 

Maine  Historical  Society. 

Portland,  T/nnsdo.y,  January  25,  JS94.— The  mid-winter  meeting  was  held 
this  afternoon  and  evening  in  Baxter  Hall,  the  president,  Hon.  James  Phinney 
Baxter,  A.M.,  in  the  chair. 

Rev.  Ephraim  C.  Cummings  read  a  paper  on  "  The  Capuchin  and  Jesuit 
Fathers  of  Pentagoet."  A  discussion  followed  in  relation  to  the  Catholic  mis- 
sions, and  the  French  and  English  contests  in  America,  in  which  President 
Baxter,  Rev.  Asa  Dalton.  D.D.,  and  Hon.  George  F.  Talbot  took  part. 

Rev.  John  Carroll  Perkins  gave  an  account  of  some  old  papers  recently  fouud 
in  the  tower  of  the  First  Parish  meeting-house,  some  of  which  he  exhibited  and 
read. 

A  sketch  of  the  life  of  Gen.  David  Cobb,  of  Gouldborough.  Me.,  lieutenant 
governor  of  Massachusetts,  by  Hon.  Joseph  W.  Porter,  was  read  in  his  absence 
by  Rev.  Henry  S.  Barrage.  D.D.  [A  portrait  and  memoir  of  Gen.  Cobb  are 
printed  in  the  Register,  vol.  18,  pp.  5-17-] 

Rev.  Henry  O.  Thayer,  of  Gray,  read  a  parer  containing  additional  matter 
concerr.ihg  Francis  Small,  the  ancestor  of  the  Smalls  of  Zvlaine. 

Mr.  Parker  M.  Read,  of  Bath,  read  a  paper  on  Rev.  Francis  Winter. 

Hon.  George  F.  Emery  read  a  paper  entitled  "  A  Red  Letter  Day,"  relating  to 
the  excursion  of  the  Society  in  September  last  to  Kittery. 

Mr.  Charles  S.  Forbes  read  a  paper  ou  "  The  Presumpscot  River." 

Resolutions  expressing  sympathy  and  good  wishes  for  William  B.  Lapham, 
M.D.,  of  Augusta,  who  has  clone  much  to  illustrate  the  history  of  Maine,  but 
who  was  then  confined  by  a  serious  illness,  of  which  he  has  since  died. 

Wyoming  Historical  and  Geological  Society. 

Wilkes-Barre,  Pa.,  February  10,  1S94.— -The  annual  meeting  of  the  Society 
was  held  at  the  Society's  Rooms,  at  12  M.,  the  president,  Calvin  Parsons,  Esq., 
in  the  chair.* 

The  corresponding  secretary  reported  423  additions  to  the  library  — 189 
volumes  and  229  pamphlets,  with  yearly  files  of  local  papers. 

The  treasurer's  report  showed  a  balance  on  hand  of  $152.44,  and  interest  on 
invested  funds,  S272.2G. 

The  Society  has  taken  possession  of  its  new  and  handsomely  finished  perma- 
nent home  with  renewed  life,  and  good  promise  for  future  business. 

The  following  officers  were  elected  for  the  ensuing  year: 

President. — Sheldon  Reynolds. 

Vice-Presidents.— Rev.  Henry  L.  Jones,  S.  T.  D.;  Hon.  Stanley  Woodward; 
Eckley  B.  Coxe ;  Capt.  Calvin  Parsons. 

Corresponding  Secretory.— Rev.  Horace  Edwin  Hayden. 

Treasurer. — Andrew  H.  McClintock. 

Secretary. — Sidney  R.  Miner. 

Librarian. — Hon.  J.  Ridgway  Wright. 


NECROLOGY  OF  THE  NEW-ENGLAND  HISTORIC 
GENEALOGICAL  SOCIETY. 

Prepared  by  the  Historiographer,  Rev.  Ezra  Hott  Byixgton,  D.D.,  of  Newton,  Mass. 

The  sketches  of  deceased  members  prepared  for  the  Register  are  of 
necessity  brief,  because  the  space  that  can  be  appropriated  is  quite  limited. 
All  the  materials  for\nore  extended  memoirs  which  can  be  gathered  are 
preserved  in  the  archives  of  the  Society,  and  they  will  be  available  for  use 
in  preparing  the  '"Memorial  Biographies,"  of  which  four  volumes  have 
been  issued  and  a  fifth  volume  is  in  press.  The  income  from  the  Towne 
Memorial  Fund  is  devoted  to  the  publication  of  these  volumes. 


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Hex.  Charles  Hene.y  Bell,  A.B..  A.M.,  LL.D.,  a  life  member,  elected  June 
3,  18G8,  was  born  in  Chester,  N.  H.,  November  18,  1823,  and  died  iu  Exeter, 
N.  H.,  November  11,  1893. 

He  came  of  Scotch-Irish  ancestry.  His  paternal  ancestors  were  ainong  the 
early  settlers  of  Londonderry,  N.  IL,  from  which  colony  a  large  number  of 
eminent  men  have  descended.  He  was  prepared  for  college  at  Pembroke  Acad- 
emy and  Phillips  Exeter,  and  was  graduated  at  Dartmouth  1814.  He  studied 
law  with  Bell  &  Tuck,  and  with  his  cousin  Samuel  1).  Bell.  He  was  an  active 
and  successful  lawyer  for  a  little  more  than  twenty  years,  when  his  tastes  led 
him  to  retire  from  the  practice  of  his  profession,  and  devote  his  time  to  other 
pursuits.  He  had  a  long  and  eminent  career  in  the  public  service.  In  1858  he 
became  a  member  of  the  legislature  of  his  native  state.  He  was  afterwards 
speaker  of  the  house  of  representatives;  a  member  of  the  state  senate,  and 
president  of  that  body.  He  was  a  member  of  the  senate  of  the  United  States  in 
1S79,  and  in  1880  was  elected  governor  of  New  Hampshire  by  a  large  popular 
majority,  and  during  his  term  of  two  years  he  discharged  the  duties  of  the 
office  with  fidelity  and  ability.  His  father  and  his  uncle  had  preceded  him  in 
this  office.  He  resided  for  forty  years  iu  Exeter.  N.  II.,  and  was  president  of 
the  Board  of  Trustees  of  ExeterAcademy  and  a  trustee  of  Robinson  Female 
Seminary.  He  was  an  industrious  student  of  New-England  history,  and  was 
for  several  years  president  of  the  New-Hampshire  Historical  Society.  He  was 
the  author  of  a  number  of  historical  works,  among  which  are  the  "  Historical 
Sketch  of  Phillips  Exeter  Academy,"  "  History  of  Exeter,"  "  Memoir  of  Johu 
Wheelwright,"  and  "  The  Bench  and  Bar  of  New  Hampshire";  which  last  was 
published  after  his  death. 

Gov.  Bell  was  a  facile  and  vigorous  writer.  He  had  leisure  for  thorough 
investigation,  and  he  has  contributed  very  much  toward  the  history  of  his 
native  "state.  He  had  a  large  and  well-selected  library,  which  was  especially 
rich  iu  works  relating  to  the~history  of  New  England.  He  is  spoken  of  as  the 
model  American  gentleman,  with  cultivated  tastes,  gentle,  dignified  and  courtly. 
His  powers  were  remarkably  well  balanced.  His  judgment  was  seldom  mistaken. 
It  is  a  matter  of  congratulation  that  in  this  country  there  is  already  a  large 
number  of  men  of  culture,  who  have  leisure  to  do  thorough  work  outside  the 
range  of  the  ordinary  duties  of  professional  men. 

Gov.  Bell  was  twice  married.  In  1847  lie  married  Sarah  A .  Gilman  of  Exeter, 
who  died  in  1850.  In  18G7  he  married  Mrs.  Mary  E.,  widow  of  Joseph  Taylor 
Gilman,  and  daughter  of  Harrison  Gray  of  Boston,  who  survives  him. 

Hon.  John  James  Bell,  A.M.,  LL.B.,  a  resident  member,  elected  June  3, 
1808,  was  the  son  of  Samuel  D.  Bell,  LL.D.,  chief  justice  of  New  Hampshire, 
and  a  grandson  of  Samuel  Bell,  LL.D.,  a  justice  of  the  Superior  Court  in  that 
state,  governor  of  the  state,  and  United  States  senator.  The  honors  that  have 
been  crowded  upon  the  members  of  this  family  for  three  generations  are  almost 
without  a  parallel  in  New  England. 

Johu  J.  Bell  was  born  in  Chester,  N.  H.,  October  30,  1827,  and  died  in  Man- 
chester, N.  II.,  August  22,  1893.  He  received  a  thorough  academical  education, 
and  was  graduated  from  the  Harvard  Law  School  iu  1827.  He  received  the 
degree  of  A.M.  from  Dartmouth  College. 

He  was  president  of  the  New-Hampshire  Historical  Society  and  a  member  of 
the  American  Antiquarian  Society.  lie  was  a  man  of  books,  and  read  with  an 
eye  to  utility.  He  had  a  great  fondness  for  historical  studies,  aud  he  delivered 
a  number  of  valuable  historical  addresses. 

He  was  an  able  lawyer,  though  his  tastes  led  him  to  turn  aside  from  his  pro- 
fession at  various  times,  and  to  devote  to  other  pursuits  the  powers  which 
would  have  given  him  a  high  rank  in  his  profession.  He  was  for  some  years  a 
prominent  member  of  the  legislature  of  New  Hampshire,  and  also  a  member  of 
the  constitutional  convention  of  that  state.  He  was  president  of  a  number  of 
railroads  and  a  director  in  several  business  corporations.  He  was  an  able, 
faithful  and  ready  man,  one  to  whom  his  friends  looked  for  counsel. 

He  married  April  13,  1881,  Cora  L.  Kent  of  Exeter,  who  survives  him. 

Gyles  Mekuill,  Esq.  of  Haverhill.  Mass.,  was  a  Resident  Member  of  thi3 
Society,  elected  Dec.  4,  1878.  He  was  born  in  Haverhill,  Mass.,  March  13,  1816, 
and  died  in  Haverhill,  Jan.  23,  1894. 


226  jfecrology  of  Historic  Genealogical  Society.        [April, 

Mr.  Merrill  belonged  to  an  old  New-England  family,  which  has  been  traced 
through  seven  generations  to  Nathaniel  Merrill,  who  came  from  England  hi  the 
early  years  of  the  Bay  Colony.  He  was  a  resident  of  Newbury  in  1635,  and  he 
died  in  1635.  His  son  Donald  was  born  in  Salisbury  in  1642.  Dea.  Moses  Mer- 
rill was  born  in  Newbury  in  16S3.  His  son  of  the  same  name,  also  a  deacon,  was 
borii  in  1707.  Rev.  Gyles  Merrill  of  the  next  generation  was  born  in  1739.  He 
was  for  a  long  period  the  pastor  of  the  Congregational  Church  in  the  North 
Parish  of  Haverhill.  Moses  Merrill  was  his  son.  born  in  1770,  and  he  was  the 
father  of  Gyles  Merrill  who  has  just  parsed  away.  Mr.  Merrill  traced  the  his- 
tory of  his  family  back  to  the  emigration  from  England.  All  his  ancestors  were 
of  English  blood.  There  has  been  uo  admixture  of  foreign  blood  in  any  genera- 
tion.    All  his  ancestors  came  to  this  country  before  1650. 

For  three  generations  at  least  the  family  have  resided  in  the  North  Parish  of 
Haverhill,  on  the  same  place.     The  house  was  erected  more  than  a  century  ago. 

Mr.  Merrill  received  a  good  common-school  education,  and  spent  his  early 
years  on  the  farm,  teaching  school  in  the  winter  season.  In  18-40  he  became 
the  bookkeeper  of  a  firm  that  was  engaged  in  building  the  Boston  &  Maine  Rail- 
road. In  1847  he  removed  to  Roxbury,  aud  took  a  position  in  the  office  of  the 
Norfolk  Lead  Company.  In  1S.32  he  became  an  officer  of  the  Sullivan  Railroad 
of  New  Hampshire.  In  18o9  he  was  chosen  superintendent  of  the  Vermont 
Central  and  Vermont  &  Canada  Railroads,  a  position  of  very  great  labor  and 
responsibility,  which  he  held  until  1873,  when  impaired  health  compelled  him  to 
relinquish  the  arduous  duties  of  the  position.  The  company  whose  general 
manager  he  was  built  and  leased  a  number  of  railroads.  At  the  time  of  his 
resignation  the  system  included  nearly  800  miles  of  railway,  extending  through 
Vermont  and  Massachusetts,  and  into  .  Connecticut,  New  York  and  Canada. 
More  than  live  thousand  men  were  employed  by  this  Company.  Mr.  Merrill  was 
the  directing  head  of  this  system,  and  managed  it  with  irreat  efficiency  aud 
wisdom.  Twenty  years  ago  he  was  well  known  all  through  northern  New  Eug- 
land. 

On  relinquishing  the  business,  he  removed  to  the  old  home  of  the  family  in 
North  Haverhill,  in  March,  1874.  He  remodeled  the  old  homestead,  and  gath- 
ered into  it  the  old  heir-looms  of  the  family.  He  was  'pleasantly  occupied  with 
his  private  business,  and  with  the  ati'airs  of  the  Church  of  which  his  grand- 
father had  been  the  pastor. '  He  was  fond  of  reading,  and  of  historical  investi- 
gation, and  he  was  a  successful  antiquarian.  He  made  a  tour  in  Europe  in 
1878,  with  his  wife,  visiting  England  and  Scotland  and  a  number  of  the  Conti- 
nental countries.  He  also  traveled  extensively  in  the  Southern  and  Western 
States  of  this  country.  Most  of  his  later  years  have  been  spent  in  his  home  in 
the  country,  amid  the  scenes  familiar  to  him  in  his  childhood.  It  was  a  typical 
New-England  home;  such  as  a  man  of  abundant  means,  with  simple  and  culti- 
vated tastes,  would  love  to  provide  for  his  declining  years. 

The  writer  of  this  sketch  has  been  acquainted  with  Mr.  Merrill  for  more  than 
thirty  years.  He  was  a  good  man.  singularly  modest  and  unassuming  in  charac- 
ter, of  strict  integrity,  and  broad  benevolence.  It  has  been  said  of  him  that  he 
"  counted  as  friends  all  who  knew  him,  but  never  made  an  enemy/'  He  married 
Nov.  28,  1849,  Eliza  Watson  Newbury,  a  teacher  in  Roxbury.  She  died  in  1890. 
They  had  four  sons,  two  of  whom'  survive.  One  of  them  occupies  the  old 
homestead. 

Henry  Wiiea-tlam),  A.M.,  M.D.,  a  corresponding  member  of  this  Society 
and  president  of  the  Essex  Institute,  died  at  Salem,  after  a  lingering  illness, 
27  February,  1893,  in  his  eighty-second  year.  He  was  the  sixth  child  and  fifth 
son  of  Richard  and  Martha  (Goodhue)  Wheatland,  and  was  boru  at  Salem.  11 
January,  1812.  His  father,  sou  of  Peter  and  Bridget  (Foxcroft)  Wheatland, 
born  id  England,  at  Wareham,  in  the  county  of  Dorset,  20  October,  1762,  went 
early  to  London,  and  thence,  soon  after,  to  sea.  After  serving  three  years  in 
the  British  navy,— being  stationed  principally  in  the  West  Indies  during  the 
period  of  the  Revolutionary  war, — "he  came  to  Salem,  upon  the  conclusion  of 
peace  in  1783,  and  there  continued  to  reside  until  his  death,  18  March.  1S30. 
Until  about  the  year  1800  he  followed  the  seas,  In  the  East  India  trade.  After- 
wards he  enuraired  in.  mercantile  business  at  Salem,  from  which  he  retired  not 
long  before  his  death. 

Dr.  Wheatland's  mother  was  his  father's  second  wife,  his  first  wife  Mar- 


1894.]       Necrology  of  Historic  Genealogical  Society.  227 

caret  Silver  of  Salem  (who  bore  him  no  children),  having  died  9  June, 
1789.  His  second  wife.  Mrs.  Martha  (Goodhue)  Wheatland,  was  the 
daughter  of  Stephen,  son  of  Benjamin  Goodhue,  and  his  wife  Martha,  daughter 
of  Benjamiu  Prescott  and  Rebecca  Minot  his  wife.  Stephen  was  brother  to 
Hon.  Benjamin  Goodhue,  first  member  of  Congress  from  the  Essex  district 
under  the  Federal  Constitution.  Through  this  line  Dr.  Wheatland  was  de- 
scended from  Rev.  Francis  Higginson,  the  first  minister  iu  Salem,  and  w:is 
fourth  cousin  to  William  Hiekling  Prescott,  the  historian,  and  more  nearly  re- 
lated to  the  descendants  of  Hon.  Roger  Sherman,  who  married  his  grand-aunt 
Rebecca  Prescott,  the  grandmother  of  Hon.  William  M.  Evarts  and  of  the 
Hons.  Ebenezer  Rockwood  Hoar  and  George  Frisbie  Hoar. 

By  the  death,  one  week  earlier,  of  his  brother  George  (H.  C.  1824)  in  his 
ninetieth  year,  Henry  became  the  last  survivor  of  his  father's  children.  Early 
deprived  of  the  companionship  of  his  mother,  who  died  13  August.  1826,  aged  56 
years,  (3  months,  11  days,  he  became  for  a  time  a  member  of  the  family  of 
Benjamin  Goodhue,  his  bachelor  uncle,  at,  Salem.  At  the  age  of  sixteen  he 
entered  Harvard  College,  graduating  there  in  16:32.  two  years  after  the  decease 
of  his  father.  He  studied  medicine  under  the  noted  surgeon.  Dr.  Abel  L.  Per- 
son of  Salem,  and  received  his  medical  degree  at  Harvard  in  188?.  His  studies 
of  the  animal  organs  and  tissues  attracted  him  to  deeper  research  in  compara- 
tive anatomy  and  biology,  and  thus  led  to  the  abandonment  of  any  purpose  to 
practise  his  profession. 

He  acquired  a  wide  and  minute  knowledge  of  animal  life  and  organisms,  and 
to  this  he  added  such  acquisitions  in  botany,  geology  and  mineralogy  as  made 
him  a  useful  instructor  and  guide  to  the  young  in  every  department  of  natural 
history,  and  the  welcome  companion  of  men  renowned  for  high  attainments  in 
natural  science.  By  his  methodical  and  industrious  habits,  he  rained  time  to 
improve  the  opportunities  which  his  social  position  and  his  familiarity  with  the 
public  records  afforded,  for  the  study  of  local  history  and  genealogy.  By  this 
means  he  accumulated  a  fund  of  interesting  facts,  of  many  of  which  he  became 
the  sole  repository,  and  no  small  part  of  which,  it  is  feared,  has  been  lost  by 
his  decease. 

The  great  work  of  his  life,  however,  was  the  upbuilding  of  the  Essex  Insti- 
tute, which  was  formed  by  uniting  the  Essex  Historical  Society  and  the  Essex 
County  Natural  History  Society.  This  union  was  effected  in  1818,  chiefly 
through  his  instrumentality.  Since  then,  as  before  while  a  member  of  the 
older  societies  aboveuamed,  he  continued  assiduous  in  his  efforts  to  promote  the 
study,  and  to  diffuse  a  knowledge  of  science,  history  and  art ;  particularly, 
though  not  exclusively,  iu  his  native  county.  His  labors  to  this  end  were  pur- 
sued with  equal  zeal  and  self-denial.  He  not  only  gave  his  entire  time  and 
energy  to  this  service  gratuitously,  but  he  devoted  to  it  his  modest  patrimony 
and  whatever  else  he  acquired  or  saved  by  his  frugality.  He  had  the  satisfac- 
tion of  seeing  his  devotion  repaid  by  the  firm  establishment  and  steady  growth 
of  the  Institute,  and  by  the  foundation  of  the  Peabody  Academy  of  Science  (an 
institution  intimately  related  to  the  older  corporation),  as  well  as  of  feeling  that 
his  life  work  would  be  surely  carried  on  by  successors  who  have  grown  up 
under  his  eye  and  tutelage,  who  fully  appreciate  his  labors,  and  who  cherish 
for  him  the  sincerest  affection. 

Dr.  Wheatland  was  made  a  corresponding  member  of  the  New-England  His- 
toric Genealogical  Society,  April  7.  1810.  lie  was  vice  president  and  one  of  the 
original  trustees  of  "  The  Peabody  Academy  of  Science  for  the  County  of 
Essex";  a  trustee  of  "  The  Peabody  Museum  of  Archaeology  " ;  a  member  of 
"The  American  Antiquarian  Society"  and  of  "  The  American  Historical  A>so- 
ciation";  and  a  member  and  one  of  the  founders  of  "  The  American  Association 
for  the  Advancement  of  Science,"  ic.  <£:. 

Dr.  Wheatland  married  3  February,  18j8,  MaryC,  daughter  of  Hon.  Elishi 
and  Catherine  (Orne)  Mack  of  Salem.  She  was  born  2.5  September,  1816,  and 
died  there  13  February,  1SG2.  They  had  no  children.  His  remains  were  de- 
posited in  Harmony  Grove  Cemetery,  Salem.  In  a  sermon  preached  at  the 
North  Church  on  the  Sunday  following  his  death,  a  tribute  was  paid  to  his 
character  and  life  work  by  his  pastor  Rev.  Edmund  B.  Willson.  and  memorial 
addresses  in  his  honor  were  delivered  by  members  of  tii"  Institute,  at  a  s  >  fcial 
meeting  on  the  evening  of  17  April,  1893.  See  other  notices  of  him  aim  tributes 
in  Prescott  Memorial  (1870),  passim;  Goodell's  Address  on  Semi-centennial 
Anniversary  of  the  formation  of  Essex  Historical   Society,  1871,  pp.  21-23; 


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228         Necrology  of  Historic  Genealogical  Society.  [April, 

Memorial  number  of  the  Historical  Collections  of  the  Essex  Institute,  now  in 
press. 

By  Abner  C.  GoocleU,  Jr.,  A.M. 

AracsTrs  Rtjss,  A.M.  was  elected  a  resident  member  of  this  Society  1  No- 
vember, 1SS2,  and  died  iu  Boston,  7  June,  1S92. 

He  was  born  in  Boston,  on  Hawkins  street,  G  February,  1S27,  and  was  thus 
sixty-five  years  old  at  his  death.  His  parents  were  Daniel  Russ,  born  at  Dam- 
ariscotta,  "Maine,  and  Sarali  Bakeman,  born  at  Castine,  Me.  Mr.  Buss  spent  his 
boyhood  in  the  city  near  the  place  of  his  birth,  and  attended  school  at  the  old 
Boylston  School  on  Fort  Hili,  and  also  the  school  on  East  street,  until  near 
twelve  years  of  age,  when,  from  some  trouble  with  his  eyes,  lie  was  obliged  to 
give  tip  his  studies,  and  his  only  education  afterwards  was  gained  from  general 
reading  and  contact  with  the  world.  His  parents  were  poor,  with  a  growing 
family,  and  like  other  lads  thus  situated  he  was  expected  to  be  self-supporting 
as  soon  as  able.  He  was  employed  for  some  time  in  the  hardware  store  of 
"  Oliphant  Brothers  "  on  Pearl  street,  where  he  gained  some  knowledge  of  old- 
time  business  ways,  and  learned  book-keeping.  Iu  1851,  at  the  aure  of  twenty- 
four,  he  went  to  California,  across  the  isthmus,  and  joined  Mr.  Moses  Ellis  in 
business.  Some  time  after  he  went  with  a  cargo  of  merchandise  to  the  Sand- 
wich Islands,  and  established  a  business  there  at  the  port  of  Honolulu,  remain- 
ing about  two  years,  when  he  returned  to  San  Francisco  and  joined  Mr.  Ellis 
again.  Eater  on  he  came  back  to  the  East,  again  crossing  the  Isthmus,  with 
the  purpose  of  purchasing  goods  for  the  California  house,  but,  while  iu  Boston, 
was  persuaded  by  his  friend,  John  C.  Danforth,  then  the  law  partner  of  Hon. 
John  C.  Park,  to" leave  his  business  career  and  enter  upon  the  study  of  the  law. 
He  decided  upon  this  course,  studied  in  their  office,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar. 
Subsequently  he  became  a  partner  of  Mr.  Danforth.  This  connection  lasted 
several  years,  when  Mr.  Buss  opened  an  office  alone  at  No.  H  Tremont  street. 
From  there  he  removed  to  Pemberton  square,  No.  1j,  and  then  No.  26,  but 
finally  located  at  No.  20,  where  he  has  been  for  many  years,  having  rooms  in  the 
upper  stories  in  which  he  kept  house,  with  his  brother  Mr.  Charles  E.  Eu>s  and 
his  sister  Miss  Eucv  Buss.  From  time  to  time  he  has  been  associated  in  his 
law  business  with  R.  Yvr.  Nason,  Hon.  J.  W.  McKim.  Judge  J.  M.  F.  Howard 
and  W.  G.  Pattee.  Some  seven  vears  ago  he  united  in  business  with  Hon.  M. 
O.  Adams,  with  whom  he  continued.  About  the  same  time  he  removed  his 
apartments  to  Hotel  Bellevue,  Beacon  street,  where  his  unmarried  sister  still 
made  his  home  for  him.  During  the  summer  months  he  lived  upon  one  of 
the  "Brewsters,"  an  island  in  the  lower  harbor,  which  he  had  improved  and 
built  a  commodious  house  upon.  Going  back  and  forth  to  and  from  the  city 
each  dav  in  his  fine  yacht,  entertaining  friends  iu  his  cordial  and  simple  manner, 
it  is  probable  that  "some  of  the  happiest  hours  of  his  life  were  passed  in  thi3 
free  "  sea-^irt  island."  All  who  have  enjoyed  his  genial  hospitality  there  have 
surely  seen  him  at  his  happiest.  Surveying  his  course,  and  summing  up  the 
character  and  result,  we  must  look  upon  him  as,  in  the  best  sense  of  the  term, 
a  "  self-made  man."  With  limited  educatioual  advantages  in  youth,  he  was  one 
of  the  best  read  men  iu  the  profession ;  and  not  only  in  the  literature  of  law, 
but  in  nearly  every  branch  of  human  science.  He  early  began  the  practice  of 
buying  a  new  book  each  week,  and  thus  became  possessed  of  an  immense  and 
varied  library.  The  method  of  his  business  and  the  perfect  system  of  his  office 
have  been  for  years  the  admiration  of  his  associates  in  the  profession.  His 
clientage  was  extensive,  permanent,  and  of  the  best  class.  Great  interests  and 
important  trusts  were  left  to  his  administration  and  counsel.  Some  of  the 
most  important  cases  tried  before  the  courts  of  Suffolk  in  the  last  thirty  years 
have  been  conducted  by  Mr.  Russ.  He  was  a  prominent  member  and  officer  of 
the  Boston  Bar  Association.  But  he  was  widely  connected  in  varied  concerns 
beyond  his  profession  ;  one  of  the  founders  and  promoters  of  the  Boston  Yacht 
Club,  president  of  the  Old  School  Boys  Association,  a  trustee  of  the  Warreu 
Street  Chapel,  a  conscientious  worker  in  the  city  politics,  though  never  seeking 
or  accepting  office,  his  life  was  full  of  the  best  and  highest  activities  of  his  day. 
Dartmouth  College  honored  its  own  records  in  conferring  upon  Mr.  Buss,  in 
18SG,  the  honorary  decree  of  Master  of  Arts.  , 

Mr.  Russ  never  married,  but  has  kept  the  old  tics  of  home  unbroken  with  his 
brother  Charles  and  sister  Lucy,  who,  with  another  sister,  Mrs.  Nancy  Hearsey, 


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survived  him.     He  was  a  man  of  simple  tastes  aud  manners,  direct  of  speech 
and  address,  straightforward  in  dealings,  loyal  to  the  cause  of  his  clients,  de- 
voted to  friends.     His  loss  in  all  these  relations  will  be  deeply  felt  and  widely 
deplored. 
By  the  liev.  George  M.  Bodge,  A.M.,  of  Leominster,  Mass. 


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Oxford  Men  and  their  Colleges.     By  Joseph  Foster.  Hon.  M.  A.  Oxon,  author 

of  Alumini  Oxoriiens.es,  the  British  Peerage  and  Baronetage,  &c,  &c.     Oxford 

and  London:    James  Parker  &  Co.      1503.      Illustrated  4to;  pp.   6(34;   each 

column  is  regarded  as  a  page.     Price  £1.  11.  6. 

Oxford  Men:    1SS0-1SG2.     With  a  record  of  their  schools,  honors  and  degrees. 

Bv  Joseph  Foster,   Hox.  M.  A.  Oxox,  author,  &c.  (as  above).     Oxford  and 

London  :  James  Parker  &  Co.    1893.    Illustrated.    4to;  pp.  686.  Price  £1.11.  6. 

These  two  superb  volumes  are  alike  in  size,  type  and  binding,  and  are  similar 

in  the  manner  of  illustration.     They  are  a  continuation  and  completion  of  the 

author's  series  of  volumes  of  fame,  "eutitled  Alumni  Oxonienses.     The  latter  of 

the  two  is  avowedly  a  supplement  to  the  series,  and  coutains  the  matriculation 

register  from  1880  to  and  including  1592.     The  former  may  be  described  as  the 

capital,  of  which  the  series,  thus  brought  dowu  to  date,  is  the  Corinthian  column. 

It  contains  a  historical  sketch  of  each  of  the  colleges  aud  halls  constituting  the 

University,  setting  forth  the  main  facts  pertaining  to  the  particular  institution 

from  the  beginning.     For  distinction  it  may  be  called  the  historical  volume. 

The  illustrations    of  both    are    profuse    and    artistic;    and    by   "artistic"    is 

meant  that  the  work  is  faithfully  and  fitly  done,  not  that  every  picture  is  an 

esthetic  gem.     There  are  plenty  of  that  sort,  while  many  are  copies  of  the 

quaint  conceits  of  designers  and  limners  who  lived  when  the  art  of  engraving 

was  in  its  infancy.     But  what  the  artist  of  to-day  has  attempted  in  the  one  sort 

or  the  other,  whether  by  the  use  of  the  graver  or  by  the  photographic  process, 

he  has  achieved,  leaving  nothing  to  be  desired  in  his  proper  province. 

The  first  impressiom  of  one  whc  should  hastily  glance  through  these  pages 
might  easily  be  that  the  author's  intent  was  mainly  to  exhibit  the  various  archi- 
tecture of  the  university  buildings,  an  impression  arising  from  the  fact  that  the 
views  of  facades  and  interiors  "of  existing  structures  are  not  only  numerous, 
but  usually,  if  not  invariably,  a  full  quarto  page  is  given  to  each.  But  when 
the  reader  reverts  to  the  text  of  the  historical  volume  this  impression  is  quickly 
dissipated,  and  to  his  mind  one  vista  opens  into  another,  almost  without  num- 
ber, disclosing  facts  pertaining  not  only  to  architecture  but  to  biography, 
archaeology,  portraiture,  the  vicissitudes  of  dynasties,  ecclesiastical  turns  and 
overturns,  the  expansion  of  college  curriculums,  and  to  changes  in  the  domestic 
life,  the  table-fare,  the  permitted\hversions  and  the  college  "discipline;  and  all 
this,  whether  broadly  stated  or  hinted  forth  by  instances  whence  a  rule  or  usage 
may  be  inferred,  extends  over  a  period  of  more  than  six  hundred  years.  On 
one  page  the  dinmess  of  Oxford's  remote  antiquity  is  made  tangible  by  the 
picture  of  a  time-worn  structure  entitled  'Hall,  name  unknown;"  and  on  two 
pages  of  the  companion  volume  are  photographed  groups  representing  the 
"University  Eight"  ;and  the  "University  Eleven"  for  the  year  1893.  The 
frontispiece  of  the  historical  volume  is  a  fine  portrait  of  the  present  chancellor 
or  chief  officer  of  the  University,  Lord  Salisbury,  whose  lineaments  are  familiar 
to  readers  of  American  newspapers  and  periodicals  as  those  of  a  contemporary 
man;  and  one  soon  encounters,  as  he  turns  the  pages,  the  visages  of  Edward 
II.,  Henry  VIII.  and  Elizabeth,  who  in  their  respective  reigns  did  something 
for  the  University.  Many  engravings  appear  of  grotesque  heads  and  ngures 
comprised  in  the  architecture  of  the  college  buildings ;  also  of  designs  in  orna- 
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230  .  Book  Notices.  [April, 

mental  string-course*,  parapets  and  battlements,  of  coats  of  arms,  of  specimens 
of  antique  furniture  and  table-ware,  and  one  of  the  identical  brazen-nose  door- 
knocker—  of  date  A. D.  loot  —  whence  "Brasenose  College"  gets  its  name. 
The  fail-page  illustrations  of  existing  architecture  are  usually,  and  perhaps  in 
every  instance,  done  by  a  photographic  process  which  yields  a  tinted  impression. 
This  faint  haze  of  color  adds  much  to  the  effect,  especially  in  interiors. 

Accompanying  these  pleasing  reminisences  of  by-gone  days  are  pages  of  dry 
facts,  or.  if  the  cynics  of  literature  please,  "  dry-as-dust."'  To  the' historian 
these  are  invaluable  and  indispensable,  as  are  the  pages  of  the  ledger  and  city 
directory  to  the  man  of  business.  Xo  historian  may  ever  desire  to  know,  for 
example,  who  was  principal  of  Balliol  College  iu  the  year  12s2,  but  should  it  so 
happen  he  wants  the  exact  fact  and  not  a  tradition  or  surmise  of  it.  This  book 
supplies  that  fact,  with  thousands  like  it,  extending  through  the  six  centuries. 
Lists  are  given  of  all  the  masters  of  the  colleges' of  the  University  from  the 
beginning  to  the  present  time,  with  an  outline  in  brief  of  the  public  career  of 
each,  setting  forth  his  college  of  matriculation,  honorary  degrees,  offices  of 
dignity  in  church  or  state,  with  mention  of  any  remarkable  achievements, 
exact  dates  being  supplied  in  each  case.  A  complete  list  of  the  officers  in  each 
college  in  the  year  16i>8  is  al*o  a  part  of  the  record.  The  historical  sketches  of 
the  colleges  are  but  brief,  considering  the  period  covered,  but  reference  is  made 
in  each  to  any  more  complete  narrative  which  may  exist.  Nearly  all  of  them 
have  been  condensed  from  fuller  narrative*,  in  some  instances  by  the  authors  of 
such  narratives,  and  all  but  a  very  few  of  the  sketches  have  been  prepared  by 
Oxford  historians.  The  record  has,  therefore,  the  stamp  of  authenticity,  and 
offers  to  the  student  or  inquirer  the  unique  advantage  of  opening  the  whole  field 
to  his  view  at  once.  In  their  special  ways  both  volumes  are  standard  works  of 
reference,  and  the  historical  volume  is  also  a  definite  contribution  to  good 
literature. 

A  variety  of  excerpts  of  pleasant  antique  flavor  might  be  made  from  these 
pages  did  space  permit.  A  note  as  to  the  antiquity  itself  may  be  ventured.  It 
would  be  difficult  at  this  distance,  and  perhaps  also  on  the  spot,  unless  some 
precipe  definitions  were  agreed  upon,  to  decide  which  college  has  priority  in 
that  particular.  The  writer  of  the  sketch  of  Merton  College  says:  "Meiston, 
the  earliest  of  English  colleges,  and  the  model  of  all  the  rest,  dates  its  pedigree 
from  the  year  12G4.  having  been  founded  by  Walter  de  Merton,  chancellor  to 
Henry  III."  The  writer  for  Balliol  says:  "  The  origin  of  Balliol  College  is 
traced  to  certain  payments  made  by  John  Balliol,  not  long  after  1260,  for  che 
support  of  poor  students  at  Oxford."  He  adds  that  in  1282  it  was  "  placed  upon 
an  established  footing,"  the  method  or  plan  of  organization  being  that  of  Merton 
College.  The  writer  for  University  College  says',  in  substance,  that  that  insti- 
tution has  its  origin  in  a  bequest  iu  the  will  of  William  of  Durham  who  died  in 
the  year  1249.  The  first  application  of  the  gift,  so  far  as  known,  was  in  1253, 
when  a  house  and  land  were  bought,  the  deed  for  which  still  exists.  This  first 
house  stood  on  land  now  occupied  by  the  north-east  corner  of  Brasenose  College, 
the  removal  of  University  College  to  its  present  site  being  of  date  1343.  He 
follows  his  statement  with  this  remark:  "  Anyhow,  the  college  is  the  oldest 
foundation  in  the  University,  although  it  was  organized  as  a  college,  in  the  sense 
in  which  we  understand  that  word,  later  than  Balliol  and  Merton  Colleges." 

The  fact  seems  to  be  that  several  of  these  earliest  colleges  grew  out  of  exist- 
ing monasteries,  and  that  a  mouastic  regimen  was  maintained  for  a  while. 
Merton  was,  however,  founded  as  a  secular  college,  and  the  founder  provided 
that  "  no  monk  or  friar  should  be  admitted  on  his  foundation  at  all" — that  is, 
admitted  as  a  student  or  fellow.  Under  this  strict  definition  the  oldest  collegiate 
building  at  Oxford  —  the  choir  of  a  chapel  erected  in  the  latter  part  of  the  13th 
century  —  is  claimed  for  Merton,  with  the  proviso,  "  if  we  exclude  fragments 
of  monastic  buildings  afterwards  converted  to  collegiate  uses." 

The  prestige  derivable  from  antiquity  is  curiously  illustrated  by  the  language 
of  the  writer  for  Worcester  College,  his  phrase  here  italicized  being  probably 
without  parallel  in  the  written  histories  of  eleemosynary  institutions.  Having 
stated  that  in  1753  and  1773  the  college  quadrangle  was  rebuilt  in  part,  he  adds : 
"Fortunately,  funds  ran  short  for  further  reconstruction,  so  that  the  old  Bene- 
dictine tenements  still  form  the  southern  side  of  the  quadrangle"  —  that  is, 
tenements  occupied  by  Benedictine  monks,  dating,  apparently,  from  the  year  1883. 
Whatever  are  the  merits  of  tins  dispute  (if  there  be  one)  the  point  for  readers 
on  this  side  of  the  ocean  perhaps  is,  that,  giving  the  three  colleges  first  named 


1894.]  ^  Boole  Xotices.  231 

an  average  date,  the  world  had  yet  to  wait  two  centuries  and  the  third  part  of 
another  to  have  it  announced  that  such  a  place  as  America  existed,  and  to  wait 
128  years  more  for  the  landing  on  Plymouth  Rock.  From  the  date  of  the  bequest 
of  William  of  Durham  to  the  date  of  that  of  John  Harvard,  which  founded 
America's  oldest  collegiate  institution,  is  a  period  of  389  years.  There  is 
authority  in  the  text  for  saying  that  "  Hertford  is  the  youngest  college  of  the 
University."  It  was  chartered,  after  a  reorganization,  in  1740,  but  traces  its 
origin  to  Hert  or  Hart  Hall,  of  elate  about  1280.  Nevertheless,  the  last  chapter  iu 
the  book  is  entitled  "  Keble  College.''  and  describes  that  institution,  winch  was 
chartered  in  1870.  No  college  was  chartered  at  Oxford  between  1710  and  1870. 
Keble  College  appears  to  have  substantially  the  same  dignities  and  privileges  as 
the  others;  but  there  is  a  technical  or  legal  distinction  which  doubtless  war- 
rants the  statement  of  the  writer  for  Hertford.  That  technicality  is  indicated 
by  the  writer  for  Keble.  who  says:  "The  charter  [of  Keble]  authorized  the 
incorporation  of  this  college  within  the  University  of  Oxford;  but  this  incor- 
poration has  not  been  carried  out,  and  its  constitution  differs  from  that  of  the 
other  colleges." 

By  Daniel  W.  Baker,  Esq.,  of  Boston. 

Notes  on  the  Surnames  of  Francus,  Franceis,  French,  etc.,  in  Scotland,  with  an 
account  of  the  Frenches  of  Thornyiiykesi.  By  A.  D.  Weld  French,  F.  S.  A.  Scot. 
Boston :     Privately  Printed.     1803.     8vo.  pp.  109. 

The  writer  of  this  volume  is  already  well  and  favorably  known  in  Great 
Britain  and  this  country  as  the  author  of  the  "Index  Armorial."  His  first 
work,  however,  on  armory  was  on  the  coats  of  arms  of  the  surname  of  Williams. 
The  present  title  does  not  fully  indicate  its  antiquarian  and  historical  impor- 
tance, for  this  volume  goes  far  back  to  the  very  foundation  stones  of  history. 
Much  of  the  earliest  information  has  been  gathered  from  the  ancient  abbey 
archives  in  England.  Scotland  and  Normandy.  And  although  there  are  a  few 
gaps  in  the  historical  records,  yet  practically  this  original  search  begins  at  the 
very  end  of  the  11th  century  and  continues  down  to  the  dawn  of  the  17th  cen- 
tury, a  period  of  more  than  500  years.  No  one  but  the  historical  and  geneal- 
ogical author  can  fully  realize  the  amount  of  work,  perseverance  and  study 
necessary  to  have  completed  this  volume.  Dissecting  the  work,  we  classify  it 
under  the  following  four  headings  : — 

First.  Surnames,  on  which  subject  the  preface  is  particularly  interesting. 
Nor  does  the  interest  fail  on  this  theme  in  the  body  of  these  records.  As  an 
illustration,  we  cite  an  instance  as  found  in  the  Family  of  Ay  ton,  where,  start- 
ing with  Francus,  we  have  Franciscus,  Franceis,  Franceys,  Francys,  Frauncays, 
Frances,  Fraunches  and  finally  Franche. 

Second.  Historicaily.  The  translations  of  the  ancient  unpublished  Nor- 
man charters  specially  indicate  the  then  prevailing  custom  of  individual  donation 
to  the  abbeys,  the  existing  system  of  land  tenure,  historic  and  genealogical 
information,  as  well  as  early"  prototypes  of  some  French  and  Anglo-Norman 
surnames;  similar  illustrations  by  charters  are  given  for  Scotland.  Many  his- 
torical events  crop  out  in  dilferent  parts  of  this  work  iu  connection  with  the 
surnames  in  Scotland,  of  which  the  following  is  a  partial  synopsis: — 

In  the  year  129fi,  Roll  of  submission  of  King  John  Baiiol  to  his  liege  lord 
King  Edward  the  First  of  England. 

Arrangements  in  1302  for  the  defence  of  Kirkintilloch  castle. 

Taking  of  Edinburgh  ca-tle  from  the  English  in  1312-13. 

King  Edward  the  Second's  flight  in  1314  after  the  battle  of  Bannockburu. 

Third.  General  Notes  on  the  surname;  beginning  at  the  end  of  the  11th 
century,  we  find  "  Robertus  ffraunceys,  one  of  the  few  recorded  knights  of  the 
2d  Robert  de  Brus  in  English  history."  The  earlier  Norman  charters  recorded 
give  the  Latin  form  of  the  surname ;  they  are  all  identified  with  the  Valognes 
district  of  the  Cotentin,  the  Normandy  home  of  the  Braces,  in  which  locality 
are  many  records  of  the  surname  of  Franceis,  which  at  a  later  period  appears  in 
the  Annandale  of  Scotland  as  feudatories  of  the  Bruces.  Besides  the  last 
named  feudality  there  are  many  associations  of  the  name  in  connection  with 
the  old  Earls  of"  Dunbar,  even  before  the  recorded  charters  of  the  Frenches  undei 
these  Earls. 

There  are  indications  that  William  Franceis  under  the  different  orthographical 
changes  of  this  surname,  so  often  found  as  a  witness  to  the  abbey  charters  as 


232  Book  JSfotices.  [April, 

well  as  those  of  the  Braces,  may  have  been  the  same  personage.  la  continua- 
tion we  find  much  genealogical  information  about  the  Francois  of  Ayton  ami 
Linlithgow,  the  latter  family  being  specially  distinguished  as  having  furnished 
the  second  master  mason  to  the  Crown  of  Scotland. 

Fourth.  L.ur.DS  of  Tuon.vYDYicr.s,  which  comprises  Part  Second  of  this 
work,  is  the  unpublished  records  of  that  family  for  more  than  200  years,  begin- 
ning with  the  latter  part  of  the  14th  century  and  continued  to  the  opening  of  the 
17th  century;  this  was  during  the  reigns  of  Kings,  Robert  the  3d,  the  five 
Jameses,  Queen  Mary,  and  ending  with  the  reign  of  King  James  the  6th  of  Scot- 
laud,  who  became  in  1603  the  first  Scotch  King  of  England.  This  period  com- 
prises many  interesting  epochs  in  Scotch  history,  including  the  Reformation. 
Several  members  of  the  family  of  French  of  Thornydykes  held  positions  immedi- 
ately under  the  last  named  sovereign. 

Although  this  work  is  privately^priuted  and  limited  to  the  small  edition  of 
300  copies,  this  disadvantage  to  the  general  public  is  somewhat  overcome,  from 
the  fact  that  Mr.  French  has  donated  copies  to  the  leading  Historical,  Geneal- 
ogical, and  Free  libraries  of  our  country. 

By  Charles  E.  Hurd,  Esq.,  of  Boston, 

Memoir  of  the  Hon.  Josiah  Gardner  Abbott,  LL.D.,  read  before  the  Old  Besidents 
Historical  Association.  By  Ctiaiu/es  Cowley,  LL.D.  With  the  Proceedings 
of  the  Bar,  &c,  £c.  Boston  :  Little,  Brown  &  Co.  1S92.  8vo.,  pp.  92. 
A  volume  of  more  than  passing  interest — albeit  designed  primarily  for  private 
circulation — is  a  memoir  of  the  late  Hon.  Josiah  Garduer  Abbott,  LL.D.,  whose 
lamented  death  took  place  at  his  summer  home  at  Wellesley  Hills,  Mass.,  June 
2,  MJftl.  Its  contents  consist  of  a  eulogy  originally  prepared  for  and  delivered 
before  the  Old  Residents  Historical  Assocfatiou  of  Lowell  —  where  Judge 
Abbott  "won  his  spurs  "  in  the  legal  profession,  and  passed  many  honorable  and 
happy  years — by  it?  author,  Hon.  Charles  Cowley,  LL.D.,  who  was  a  law-student 
in  the  ofiice  of  Judge  Abbott,  and  hence  wrote  cori  amore:  tributes  from  Senator 
Hoar.Gov.  Russell,  Congressman  Stevens,  Gen.  Butler  and  other  eminent  personal 
friends;  proceedings  of  the  Bar  of  the  County  of  Middlesex,  in  view  of  the 
death  of  their  distinguished  associate,  and  similar  proceedings  of  the  Bar  As- 
sociation of  the  City  of  Boston;  and  an  appendix,  giving  Judge  Abbott's  draft 
of  a  proposed  address  to  the  people  of  the  United  States,  protesting  against  the 
decision  of  the  Presidential  Electoral  Commission  (of  which  he  was  a  member) 
in  1877,  and  his  letter  declining  the  Republican  nomination  for  Attorney-General 
of  Massachusetts  in  1861 ;  the"  whole  prefixed  with  an  admirable  portrait  of  the 
illustrious  subject  of  the  work. 

Amid  this  wealth  of  material  in  moderate  compass — there  are  less  than  100 
octavo  pages  in  the  book  —  its  chief  interest  centres  in  the  discriminating  and 
eloquent  pages  of  Judge  Cowley.  The  career  which  he  has  here  sketched  so 
succinctly  was  one  of  more  ^ha"n  ordinary  brilliance,  even  for  New  England  in 
its  heroic  days;  and  this  volume  cannot  fail  to  be  of  value  as  an  inspiration  to 
those  who  are  yet  "  in  the  gristle"  of  early  manhood,  as  well  as  a  pleasure  to 
all  who  take  pride  in  our  American  institutions,  which  have  developed  such  men. 
By  the  Bev.  John  S.  Colby,  of  Marlboro',  X.  H. 

American  Colonial  History,  illustrated  by  Contemporary  Medals.  By  the  late 
C.  Wyllys  Betts.  Edited,  with  notes',  by  William  T.  R.  Marvin,  A.M.,  and 
Lymax  Hayxes  Low.  New  York:  Scott  Stamp  and  Coin  Company  Lt'd. 
1891.  8vo.,  pp.  332.  Price  S3.  The  book  can  be  obtained  of  Messrs.  T.  R. 
Marvin  &  Son,  73  Federal  St.,  Boston. 

As  the  first  essay  into  this  field  by  American  Numismatists,  who  have  followed 
in  its  plan  the  model  set  by  the  British  Museum,  this  work  is  particularly 
deserving  of  attention.  It  will  prove  of  great  value  to  collectors  and  students 
of  American  Colonial  history,  in  which  so  much  interest  is  manifested  at  the 
present  time.  The  late  Mr.  Betts  was  an  enthusiastic  student  of  American 
history  as  exemplified  by  contemporary  medals,  in  distinction  from  coins,  and 
this  work  is  the  result  of  his  labors. 

The  medals  described,  engravings  of  many  of  which  are  given,  were  mostly 
struck  hi  Europe,  and  the  legends  they  bear  are  in  various  languages — Latin, 


..-. 


189-4.] 


Booh  Notices.  233 


German,  French,  Dutch,  Spanish,  etc, :  translations  of  these  have  been  uniform- 
ly sup-plied;  to  many  readers 'this  will  greatly  increase  the  interest  with  which 
they  Avill  study  these  pieces.  The  queer  macaronic  legends  on  the  medals 
satirizing  John  Law  have  been  discussed  in  the  notes,  and  the  minute  distinc- 
tions in  the  almost  endless  series  of  the  Vernons  carefully  tabulated  for  easy 
reference.  By  "  America"  the  author  seems  to  have  intended  to  include  the 
New  "World  of'the  western  hemisphere,  otherwise  pieces  like  those  on  Cook's 
voyages,  and  the  like,  could  have  no  proper  place  in  the  volume. 

The  editors,  Messrs.  Marvin  and  Low,  have  added  much  to  the  value  of  the 
work  by  their  copious  notes. 

1S15-1S32.  Joseph  Bonaparte  en  Amerique.  Par  Georges  Berth*,  accom- 
pagne  d'un  Portrait  d'apres  une  Gravure  de  M.  Rodolphe  Piguet.  Paris  Libra- 
l-ie  de  la  Xouvelle  Revue,  18  Boulevard  Montmarte,  1833.  (Droits  de  traduction 
et  de  reproduction  reserve's)  12mo.,  pp.  x.v-f-423.     Prix,  3  fraucs  50. 

The  frontispiece  is  an  interesting  and  little  known  portrait  engraved  from 
one  by  Gombaud,  taken  at  Bordentown  in  1831,  in  the  Mailliard  collection.  This 
work  of  research,  among  the  living,  in  MS3.  and  printed  authorities,  both 
French  and  American,  is  dedicated  to  a  well-known  Philadclphian  and  man  of 
letters,  Admiral  Macaulay.  Its  information,  beside  that  obtained  from  this 
source,  was  derived  from  the  son  of  Joseph  Bonaparte's  confidential  secretary 
and  friend,  M.  Mailliard.  Many  old  Philadelphia  families  opened  their  treasures 
to  its  agreeable  author,  M.  Benin,  who  has  had  the  advantage,  beside  speaking 
excellent  English,  of  residing  some  time  iu  Philadelphia,  where  his  energy  in 
pursuing  this  subject  commended  itself  to  his  many  friends  in  the  Pennsylvania 
Historical  and  American  Philosophical  Societies. 

The  arrangement  is  good,  the  authorities  given,  and  an  easy  fluent  style 
describes  every  phase  of  Bonaparte's  career  while  a  sojourner  here,  his  domestic 
life,  his  residence,  its  furniture  and  its  numerous  works  of  art,  his  circle  of 
foreign  exiles  and  his  American  friendships,  which  included  Daniel  Webster, 
his  correspondence,  and  the  many  anecdotes  and  incidents  which  give  color  to 
the  life  of  one  who  was  perhaps  the  most  popular  foreigner  who  dwelt  among 
ns  at  a  time  the  nation  was  peculiarly  sensitive  to  strangers.  This  interesting 
book,  a  useful  addition  to  American  history,  is  completed  by  a  good  index. 

***** 

Town  of  Weston.  Records  of  the  First  Precinct  1746—1754,  and  of  the  Toiai 
1754—1803.    Boston  :  Alfred  Mudge  &.  Son,  1893.     Svo.  pp.  558. 

These  records  are  printed  at  the  expense  of  the  town  of  Weston  pursuant  to 
a  vote  passed  by  the  town  March  28,  1892.  They  have  been  copied  by  Mary 
Frances  Peirce,  under  whose  charge  they  have  been  printed.  She  has  taken 
great  pains  to  have  an  accurate  copy,  and  has  done  her  work  in  a  very  satisfac- 
tory manner.  She  has  prefixed  an  historical  and  explanatory  Preface,  and  has 
added  an  Index.  Three  important  documents  are  given  in  an  Appendix.  We 
are  told  in  the  Preface  that  "  by  a  vote  of  the  General  Court  in  1746,  the  north 
part  of  Weston  was  united  with  parts  of  Lexington  and  Concord  to  form  what 
was  called  the  Second  Precinct.  The  remaining  part  of  Weston  was  then  called 
the  First  Precinct,  and  records  of  the  same  were  kept  from  1746  to  1754.  At 
that  time,  the  Second  Precinct  was  incorporated  as  a  town  under  the  name  of 
Lincoln,  and  the  records  of  the  First  Precinct  were  no  longer  kept  separate 
from  those  of  the  town.  Those  of  the  latter,  after  1754,  were  kept  in  what 
had  been  the  precinct  book." 

It  is  encouraging  to  find  that  so  many  of  the  towns  of  Massachusetts  are 
printing  their  records,  and  thus  placing  "them  beyond  the  reach  of  loss  by  fire 
and  other  causes.  We  hope  that  their  example  will  be  followed  by  other  towns 
and  cities,  till  the  local  records  of  the  whole  state  are  safe  from  destruction  by 
accident  or  malice. 

The  book  makes  a  handsome  volume. 

The  Treat  Family :  A  Genealogy  of  Trott,  Tratt  and  Treat  for  Fifteen  Gen- 
erations and  Four  Hundred  and  Fifty  Years  in  England  aud  America.  Contain- 
ing more  than  Fifteen  Hundred  Families  in  America.  By  Jou>'  Harvey  Tee.*t, 
A.M.  Salem,  Mass.  :  The  Salem  Press  and  Publishing  Company.  1893.  Royal 
8vo,  pp.  xii.-j-637.  Price  §7.50. 
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A  History  of  the,  DoggetfrDaggett  Family.  By  Samuel  Bradlee  Doggett. 
Boston  :     Press  of  Rockwell  ami  Churchill.     1S94.     Svo.  pp.  GSQ. 

The  History  of  Ufton  Court  and  the  Parish  of  Ufton  in  the  County  of  Berks, 
and  of  the  Perkins  family.  Compiled  by  A.  Mary  Sharp.  Loudon:  Elliott 
Stock,  62  Paternoster  How.     1S92.     Crown  4to.  pp.  276.     Price  25  shillings. 

The  Warren-Clarke  Genealogy.  A  Record  of  Persons  related  within  the  Sixth 
Degree  to  the  Children  of  Samuel  Dennis  Warren  and  Susan  Cornelia  Clarke. 
By  Rev.  Charles  White  Huntington.  Privately  Printed.  Cambridge  :  John 
Wilson  &  Son,  University  Press.  1S94.  Royal  Svo.  pp.  238.  To  be  obtained 
by  descendants  at  $2  a  copy,  of  Fiske  Warren,  5  Chestnut  Street,  Boston. 

History  of  the  More  Family  and  an  Account  of  their  Re-union  in  1S90.  By 
David  Fellows  More.  With  a  Genealogical  Record.  By  Charles  Church 
More.     Binghamtou  :     Samuel  P.  More.     18937     Royal  Svo.  pp.  xxxi+409. 

Armorial  General  de  France  de  D' Hazier  (Complement).  Xotiee  Genealogique 
sur  la  Famille  Sohier  de  Vermadois.  Paris  :  Librairie  de  Firmiu-Didot  et  Cie. 
1894.     Folio  pp.  55. 

The  Plumbs.  1635-1800.  By  IT.  B.  Plumb.  Peiiy,  Luzerne  County,  Pa.: 
Second  Edition.     1893.     Oblong  folio,  pp.  102. 

Lanncetqt  Granger  of  Newbury,  Mass.,  and  Stiffield,  Conn.  A  Genealogical 
History.  By  James  N.  Granger.  Hartford,  Conn.  :  Press  of  the  Case,  Lock- 
wood  &  Brainard  Company.  1893.  Svo.  pp.  587.  Price  87. 50;  by  mail  $7.66; 
to  be  obtained  of  the  author,  4.2  Falls  Street,  Niagara  Falls,  N.  Y. 

Memorial  of  Josiah  Kendall,  one  of  the  First  Settlers  of  Sterling,  Mass.,  and  of 
Some  of  his  Ancestors  and  of  his  Descendants.  By  Oliver  Kendall.  Provi- 
dence :  Printed  by  the  Author.  1894.  4to.  pp.  xviii.-f-135.  Only  120  copies 
printed.     Price  83  in  cloth,  or  84  in  half  morocco. 

A  Frisian  Family.  The  Bant'i  Genealogy.  By  Theodore  M.  Ba>~ta.  New 
York.     1893.     Royal  Svo.  pp.  xiii.+412. 

A  Genealogy.  Edward  Chapman  af  Ipswich,  Mass..  1642-1G7S,  and  his 
Descendants.  By  Jacob  Chapman.  A.M.  Concord,  N.  H. :  Printed  by  the 
Republican  Press  Association.     1893.     Svo.  pp.  139.     Price,  84. 

A  History  and  Genealogy  of  the  Descendants  of  William  Hammond  of  London, 
England,  and  wife  Elizabeth  Penn,  through  their  son  Benjamin  of  Sandwich  and 
Rochester,  Mass.  By  Koland  Hammond,  A.M.;  JI.D.  Boston:  David  Ciapp 
&  Son,  Printers.  1894.  Price  -$4.  To  be  obtained  of  the  Author,  Dr.  R.  Ham- 
mond of  Campello,  Mass. 

A  Genealogical  and  Biographical  Record  of  the  Savery  Families  (Savory  and 
Savary)  and  of  the  Severy  Family  ( Severit,  Savery,  Savory  and  Savary).  By 
A.  W.  Savary  of  Annapolis  Royal,  X.  S.  Assisted  in  the  Genealogy  bv  Miss 
Lydia  A.  Savary  of  East  Wareham,  Mass.  Boston  :  The  Collins  Press/  1893. 
8vo.  pp.  276. 

The  Ancestry  of  Benjamin  Harrison,  President  of  the  United  States,  1SS0-93, 
in  chart  form,  showing  the  descendants  of  William  Henry  Harrison,  President  of 
the  United  States.  1S41,  and  Notes  on  Families  Related.  By  Charles  P.  Keith, 
Philadelphia.     1893.     Royal  Svo.  pp.  96,  and  large  folded  chart. 

Memorials  of  the  Mauran  Family.  Collected  in  Part  by  James  Eddy  Mauran. 
Compiled  by  John  C.  Stockbrldge.     Providence.     1893.     8vo.  pp.  171. 

The  Felt  Genealogy.  A  Record  of  the  Descendants  of  George  Felt  of  Casco 
Bay.  Compiled  by  John  E.  Morris.  Hartford,  Conn.:  Press  of  the  Case, 
Lockwood  &  Brainard  Company.     1S93.     Svo.  pp.  567. 

The  History  of  the  Allison  Family  in  Europe  and  America,  A.D,  1135  to  1893. 
By  Leonard  Allison  Morrison.  Boston.  Mass. :  Published  by  Damreil  & 
Upham.     1893.     8vo.  pp.  xiv.-f-312.     Price  83,75. 

A  Genealogical  History  of  the  Gallup  Family  of  the  United  States.  By  John 
D.  Gallup,  Aijawam,  Mass.  Hartford,  Conn. :  Press  of  the  Hartford  Printing 
Company.     1893.     8vo.  pp.  329. 

Early  Wills  illustrating  the  Ancestry  of  Harriot  Coffin.  Bv  her  grandson, 
William  S.  Appleton.  Boston:  Press'of  David  Clapp  &  Son.  1393.  8vo. 
pp.  86. 


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A  Record  of  the  Ancestry  and  Kindred  of  the  Children  of  Edicard  Tliompkins, 
Sr.     Printed  for  the  Compiler.     1803.     Royal  Svo.  pp.  65. 

The  Olhestob  JTamiltons.  By  Rev.  Arthur  V'extwortii  Hamilton  Eaton, 
B.A.     New  York:     Privately  Printed.     1893.     Royal  4to.  pp.  32. 

The  Ingersolls  of  Hampshire.  A  Genealogical  History  of  the  Family  in  the  line 
of  John  Jnqersoll  of  WestfieW,  Mass.  Compiled  by  Lieut.  Charles  Stedman 
Kiplky.U.S.  N.  Boston:  Alfred  Mudge  &  Son,  Printers.  1893.  Svo.  pp.  107. 
Price  §5.    To  be  obtained  of  W.  K.  Watkins,  18  Somerset  Street,  Boston. 

Henry  Crane  of  Milton,  Mass.,  1654,  and  Some  of  his  Descendants.  Compiled 
for  Mr.  Albert  Crane.  A.B.,LL.B.  Boston:  Privately  Printed.  1893.  Svo. 
pp.  26,  with  folding  pedigree. 

A  Sketch  of  Owen  Biddle,  with  a  Short  Account  of  the  Parke  Family,  together 
with  a  List  of  his  Descendants.  By  Henry  D.  Biddle.  Privately  Printed. 
Philadelphia:     1892.     Svo.  pp.  87. 

The  History  of  Edward  Poole  of  Weymouth,  Mass.,  and  his  Descendants.  By 
Murray  Edward  Poole.  A.B.  Press  of  the  Ithaca  Democrat.  1893.  Svo. 
pp.  164. 

Notes  of  the  Family  of  King,  of  West  Hall,  Dorset.  By  Charles  Herbert 
Mayo,  M.A.,  R.D.  December,  1S93.  Sherburne  :  J.  A.  &  S.  T.  Sawtell,  Print- 
ers.    Svo.  pp.  12. 

Family  Records.  Parker-Pond-Peck.  1G36-1S92.  By  Edwin  Pond  Parker, 
D.D.  Hartford,  Conn.  :  Press  of  the  Case,  Lockwood  &  Brainard  Company. 
1892.     Svo.  pp.  51. 

Collections  relating  to  the  Family  of  Trotman.  Edited  by  W.  P.  W.  Phille- 
more.  Printed  for  Private  Circulation  by  John  White,  Stroud,  Gloucestershire. 
1892.     8vo.  pp.  76. 

The  Pedigree  of  Robert  Barclay- Allardice,  Heir  Apparent  of  Line  of  Prince 
David  Stuart,  Karl  Palatine  of  Strathearn,the  Earls  of  Monte ith  and  Airth,  Lords 
Graham  of  TCilp.ont  and  Kilb'ryde;  and  the  Families  of  Barclay  of  Mathers  and 
Dry,  and  Allardice,  of  Allardice.     1S92.     Broadside,  17  by  4S  inches. 

A  Letter  from  A.  J.  Turner  relating  to  the  Genealogy  of  the  Turners  of  the  Tribes 
of  John  and  Jonathan.     Portage,  Wisconsin.     1S94.     Svo.  pp.  6. 

Genealogy  of  the  Barber-Eno  Family  of  Homer,  JV.  Y.  Newark,  N.  J.  1S93. 
8vo.  pp.  4*0. 

A  Genealogical  Sketch  of  a  Branch  of  the  Wait  or  Waite  Family  of  America. 
By  D.  Byron  Waite.     Canadice,  N.  Y.     1893.     Sq.  16mo.  pp.  22. 

The  Sharpes.  Devoted  to  the  History,  Genealogy  and  Literature  of  the  Sharpes. 
Published  monthly.  Each  number  contains  8  pages.  Nos.  8  to  15.  August 
1893  to  March  1894.     Address,  W.  C.  Sharpe,  Seymour,  Ct. 

Cowles  Family  Tree.     April,  1893.     Washington,  D.  C. :     Broadside. 

The  Kirkland  or  KirHand  Family.  By  V.  C.  Sanbqrn  [of  Chicago,  111.]. 
Boston :     Press  of  David  Clapp  &  Son.     1S94.     8vo.  pp.  5. 

Noyes  Inscription  and  Memoranda.  Bv  James  Atkins  Noyes,  A.B.,  of  Cam- 
bridge.    [Boston.     1S941.     8vo.  pp.  4. 

Descendants  of  Ensign  Thomas  Fuller  of  Dedham.  By  Francis  II.  Fuller  of 
Lincoln,  Maine.     1893.     Svo.  pp.  8. 

History  of  the  Dudley  Family.  By  Dean  Dudley.  No.  IX.  Wakefield,  Mass. 
Dean  Dudley,  Publisher.     Svo.  pp.  130.     Price  Si  a  number. 

We  continue  in  this  number  our  quarterly  notices  of  works  lately  published 
relating  to  genealogy. 

The  Treat  Family",  the  first  book  on  our  list,  shows  great  research  in  England 
and  America.  The  author  states  that  he  has  devoted  ten  years  of  constant  labor 
to  the  preparation  of  this  work,  and  the  book  itself  shows"  tiiat  the  labor  has  been 
well  expended.  The  surname  seems  to  have  been  originally  Trott,  and  in  this 
country  it  was  spelled  by  the  early  settlers  Trat,  Trot,  Tret,  Treat  and  in  other 
forms.  The  first  settler  was  Richard,  who  settled  at  Wetherstield,  Ct.  His 
son  Robert  was  governor  of  Connecticut.  The  family  has  been  a  prominent  one 
in  New  England  history,  and  the.  author  has  done  a  good  sevvice  to  family  his- 
tory by  tracing  it  out  so  thoroughly  and  preserving  it  in  print.  The  book  before 
us  is  well  indexed,  handsomely  printed,  and  is  illustrated  by  engravings  of  a  high 
order  of  merit. 


236  Book  Notice*.  [April, 

The  History  of  the  Doggett  Family  is  also  very  thoroughly  traced  in  America, 
and  considerable  matter  is  given  concerning  the  English  families.  The  author 
has  devoted  to  this  work  his  spare  time  since  the  year  1S7G.  Ke  has  produced 
a  very  valuable  book,  which  he  has  brought  out  in  a  handsome  style,  illustrated 
■with  tine  engravings,  such  as  portraits,  views  of  buildings,  etc.  It  has  full  in- 
dexes. The  family  is  to  be  congratulated  on  having  so  good  a  record  preserved 
in  print. 

Miss  Sharp's  book  on  Uftoii  Court  and  the  Perkins  family  is  valuable  for  the 
historical  and  genealogical  information  preserved  in  it.  The  Perkinses  of  Ut'ton 
were  an  old  Catholic  family  who  owned  the  manor  of  Uftoii  from  1411  till  nearly 
the  close  of  the  last  century.  The  present  mansion  of  Ufton  Court,  a  pic- 
turesque house  in  Berkshire,  dates  from  the  time  of  Elizabeth,  and  has  been 
standing  for  more  than  three  hundred  years.  The  book  shows  thorough  re- 
search,"and  much  interesting  and  instructive  historical  matter  of  bygone  times 
can  be  gleaned  from  its  pages.  The  Appendix  is  devoted  to  genealogical  matter 
relating  to  families  of  the  name  of  the  Perkins,  Parkyn,  etc.  One  chapter  is 
"  A  Poll  of  the  Pioneers  of  New  England  of  the  name  of  Perkins."  The  volume 
is  "  printed  on  tine  paper,  fully  illustrated  and  tastefully  bound  in  roxbugh  bind- 
ing." "Although  the  book  is'mainly  concerned  with  Ufton  Court  itself,  much 
valuable  information  is  given  concerning  the  parish  and  the  neighboring  district 
with  the  ancient  families  formerly  holding  property  in  Berkshire." 

The  book  on  the  "Warren-Clarke  Genealogy  is  something  new  in  this  kind  of 
literature.  The  author  says  that  "in  a  rough  way  [it]  may  be  said  to  include 
all  those  related  within  the  sixth  degree  to  the  children  of  Samuel  Dennis  War- 
ren and  Susan  Cornelia  Clarke."  The  book  seems  to  be  carefully  compiled, 
and  makes  a  handsome  volume.  Mrs.  Warren  is  a  daughter  of  the  late  Hev. 
Dorus  Clarke,  D.D.,  a  historiographer  of  this  Society. 

The  next  book,  on  the  More  family,  makes  an  elegant  volume,  profusely  illus- 
trated with  tine  views  and  portraits.  The  Historical  Committee  of  the  More 
family  deserve  great  credit  for  their  work  in  bringing  out  the  book  in  so  credit- 
able a  style.  Messrs.  David  F.  and  Charles  C.  More  are  entitled  to  praise  for 
their  work-  in  compiling  the  volume.  The  genealogical  portion  is  well  done, 
and  many  well-written  biographies  are  found  here.  This  family  is  of  Scottish 
descent,  and  an  account  of  the  Mores  of  Scotland  is  given.  The  book  has  a 
good  index. 

The  book  on  the  family  of  Sohier  de  Vermandois  gives  a  good  account  of  this 
ancient  French  family,  an  offshoot  of  which  is  found  in  America.  A  large  fold- 
ing tabular  pedigree  is  jriveu.     The  book  makes  a  handsome  volume. 

The  volume  on  the  Plumbs  is  a  second  edition  of  the  work  noticed  by  ns  in 
July,  1S91.  It  is  much  enlarged,  and  will  be  found  very  interesting,  particularly 
to  those  bearing  the  name.     A  good  index  is  given. 

The  Grangerbook  is  another  noble  contribution  to  American  family  history. 
The  author  has  bcon  unusually  successful  in  collecting  his  material  and  tracing 
out  the  scattered  branches  of  "the  family.  He  has  carefully  arranged  the  full 
and  precise  details  which  he  has  collected,  and  has  furnished  a  full  index  to  the 
work.  The  book  is  handsomely  printed  on  superior  paper,  and  is  illustrated  by 
numerous  portraits  and  other  engravings. 

The  Kendall  book  is  another  fine  volume,  for  which  the  author  deserves  great 
praise.  Much  genealogical  matter  relative  to  Josiah  Kendall  and  his  descend- 
ants is  preserved  herer.  It  is  illustrated  with  engravings  of  a  high  order  of 
merit.     The  book  has  a  good  ind.-x. 

The  next  book  is  on  the  Banta  family.  The  American  family  is  descended 
from  Epke  Jacobse,  who  "  came  from  Friesland.  Netherlands,  to  New  Amster- 
dam, February,  1059."  and  subsequently  removed  to  Bergen,  N.  J.  His  children 
bore  the  surname  of  Banta.  The  book  is  handsomely  printed  on  line  white 
paper,  and  is  illustrated  by  fine  portraits  and  other  engravings.  The  family  in 
this  country  is  well  traced,  and  much  interesting  matter  has  been  gathered  con- 
cerning the* family  in  Holland.  It  is  well  indexed.  A  folding  chart  gives  the 
ancestors  of  the  author  in  various  lines  for  six  generations. 

The  Chapman  book  is  by  the  Rev.  Jacob  Chapman  of  Exeter,  who  has  done 
mnch  for  New  England  family  hi-tory.  He  has  spent  the  best  part  of  fifteen 
years  in  this  work,  and  has  published  Ave  valuable  volumes,  namely,  the  Folsom, 
the  Philbrick,  the  Weeks,  the  Lane  and  the  Chapman  genealogies.  This  book  is 
well  compiled,  well  printed  and  well  indexed.     It  is  embellished  with  portraits. 


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Booh  Notices.  237 


The  Hammond  book  gives  the  descendants  of  Benjamin  Hammond,  an  early 
settler  on  Cape  Cod,  concerning  which  family  an  article  by  Mr.  Philip  Baltell 
•was  printed  in  the  Register  for  January  1876  (vol.  30,  pp.  2S-32).  It  shows 
great  industry  and  judgment  in  the  collection  and  arrangement  of  the  materials. 
The  book  is  well  printed  and  indexed,  and  is  illustrated  with  tine  portraits. 

The  Savary  book  is  by  Judge  Savary  of  Annapolis.  X.  S..  who  has  been  long 
engaged  in  collecting  materials  relating  to  the  several  families,  as  our  readers 
are  aware,  the  results  of  some  of  his  researches  having  appeared  in  the  Register. 
The  work  is  now  completed,  and  can  be  obtained  by  those  interested  at  a  mod- 
erate price.  It  contains  many  points  outside  of  a  mere  genealogy.  It  is  well 
printed  aud  indexed,  and  is  embellished  with  portraits  and  other  engravings. 

The  book  on  the  ancestors  of  Ex-President  Harrison  makes  an  elegant 
volume.  The  large  folding  chart,  2-1  inches  by  32  inches,  shows  ranch  labor. 
The  author  states  that  "  all  the  known  ancestors  who  lived  in  America  are  men- 
tioned in  this  chart."  The  introduction  to  the  book  contains  much  interesting 
matter.  Several  pages  each  are  devoted  to  the  follwing  families:  Armistead, 
Bacon,  Basset,  Bedell,  Burwell,  Cary,  Harrison,  Irwin,  McDowell,  Ramsey, 
Symmes  and  Tuthill.     A  good  index  Is  furnished. 

"The  book  on  the  Man  ran  family  contains  the  result  of  the  labors  of  the  late 
Mr.  James  Eddy  Mauran  of  Newport,  R.  I.,  with  those  of  Rev.  Dr.  Stock- 
brdge.  Mr.  Mauran  spent  much  time  and  money  in  collecting  materials  illus- 
trating the  history  of  the  Maurans,  which  can  be  traced  into  France  and  Italy. 
The  American  family  is  descended  from  Giuseppe  Carlo  (Joseph  Charles'; 
Mauran,  born  June  3,  1748.  in  Viilafranca.  in  the  province  of  Nice  (then  in 
Italy),  who  came  to  New  England,  aud  settled  in  Rhode  Island.  The  family  is 
one  of  much  distinction  in  that  state. 

The  book  on  the  Felt  family  is  a  work  of  much  merit.  Mr.  Morris,  the  author, 
has  succeeded  in  collecting  details  of  the  various  branches  of  the  descendants 
of  George  Felt,  an  early  settler  at  Casco  Bay  in  Maine.  The  book  is  well  ar- 
ranged, and  has  good  indexes. 

The  book  on  the  Allison  family,  by  the  Hon.  Leonard  Alison  Morrison,  gives 
an  account  of  the  family  "  in  Scotland,  England,  Ireland,  Australia,  Canada  and 
the  United  States."  Mr.  Morrison  is  the  author  of  the  "  History  of  Windham, 
N.  H.,"  and  several  other  meritorious  works  illustrating  local  and  family  history. 
The  genealogy  is  well  traced.  The  book  is  illustrated  by  portraits  aud  other 
engravings,  and  has  an  index. 

The  book  on  the  Gallup  family  seems  to  be  carefully  compiled,  and  is  well 
arranged.  The  immigrant  ancestor  was  John  Gallop,  who  was  prominent  in 
early  New  England  history.  An  Appendix  gives  valuable  historical  and  gene- 
alogical matter  relating  to  the  family.     T;ie  book  has  a  good  index. 

The  wills  illustrating  the  ancestry  of  Harriot  Coffin  illustrate  the  history  of 
several  early  New  England  families.  The  book  has  "  two  very  good  points.  It 
puts  into  print  a  number  of  early  wills,  thus  securing  them  from  loss  in  case  of 
accident  to  the  originals;  aud  it  shows  in  small  compass  all  that  is  known  of 
the  ancestry  of  one  person,"  namely,  the  author's  grandmother,  Harriot  Cothn. 
The  book  has  an  index. 

The  Tompkins  book  gives  the  ancestors  and  kindred  of  the  children  of  Ed- 
ward Tompkins,  senior,  on  the  paternal  aud  maternal  sides.  It  is  well  com- 
piled, and  is  illustrated  bv  tabular  pedigrees. 

The  book  on  the  Hamilton*  of  Oiivestob,  by  the  Rev.  Mr.  Eaton  of  New  York 
city,  author  of  li  The  Church  of  England  in  Nova  Scofcia."  '-Acadian  Legends 
and  Lvrics,"  etc.,  is  an  interesting  account  of  an  interesting  family. 

The"  book  on  the  Ingersolls  of  Hampshire  County,  Massachusetts,  contains  a 
full  record  of  that  familv.     It  is  well  compiled. 

The  book  on  the  Crane"  familv  is  a  reprint  of  the  articles  on  that  family  in 
the  forty-sixth  aud  fortv-seventh  volumes  of  the  Rkgister,  with  important 
additions.  A  tabular  pedigree  is  given.  It  is  well  printed,  and  illustrated  by 
engravings. 

The  book  on  Owen  Biddle  contains  a  memoir  of  that  patriot  of  the  Revolu- 
tion, and  also  other  matters  historical  and  genealogical.  It  contains  a  record  of 
the  descendants  of  Mr.  Biddle,  and  an  account  of  the  Parke  famiiy,  with  which 
he  intermarried.     The  book  is  well  printed. 

The  Poole  hook  gives  the  descendants  of  Edward  Poole,  an  early  settler  of 
"Weymouth,  Mass.  ~  The  author,  Mr.  Poole,  of  Ithaca,  N.  Y.,  has  made  a  book 
deserving  of  much  credit. 


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238  .  Book  Notices.  [April, 

The  Notes  on  the  King  Family  are  a  reprint  from  the  "  Notes  and  Queries  for 
Somerset  and  Dorset,"  of  which  periodical  the  author.  Rev.  Mr.  Mayo,  is  one  of 
the  editors.     Much  interesting  genealogical  matter  is  preserved. 

The  next  book  is  on  the  Parker  family,  descended  from  William  Parker,  an 
early  settler  of  Connecticut  -with  some  account  of  the  Pond  and  Peck  families. 
It  is  well  compiled. 

The  Cowles  family  tree  is  a  reduced  copy  of  an  original  made  about  1853,  and 
now  in  the  possesion  of  Mr.  William  A.  Cowles.  It  "is  printed  for  Capt.  Calvin 
P.  Cowles,  Adjutant.  General  U.  S.  A.,  who  is  preparing  a  genealogy  of  the 
family.  The  tree  shows  several  generations  of  the  descendants  of  John  Cuwles, 
an  early  settler  of  Connecticut. 

The  Barclay-Allardice  pedigree  gives  the  ancestry  of  Robert  Barclay-Allar- 
dice,  Esq.,  University  Club,  Edinburgh,  Scotland,  a  native  of  Hamilton,  Canada, 
through  the  Graham  and  Stuart  families  to  Robert  II.  of  Scotland. 

The  Turner  pamphlet  is  in  the  form  of  a  letter  of  A.  J.  Turner  of  Portage, 
Wisconsin,  to  Dr.  F.  J.  Turner  of  the  University  of  Wisconsin,  Madison,  giving 
an  account  of  his  line  of  the  Turners. 

The  book  on  the  Earber  and  Eno  families  furnishes  brief  accounts  of  those 
families.     It  is  by  George  R.  Howe,  Esq.,  of  Newark.  N.  J. 

The  pamphlet  on  the  Waite  family  gives  a  brief  account  of  Thomas  Waite  of 
Portsmouth.  R.  I.,  and  his  descendants.  It  is  a  good  beginning  for  the  full 
history  of  that  family. 

Mr.  Sharpe  of  Seymour,  Ct.,  still  continues  the  publication  of  his  monthly 
periodical,  '•  The  Sharpes."  Eight  new  numbers  have  been  received  since  our 
last  notice.     It  is  a  good  form  for  preserving  genealogical  materials. 

The  Trotman  pamphlet  is  a  collection  of,  Matter  from  wills,  parish  registers 
and  other  sources,  illustrating  the  genealogy  of  the  family  of  that  name.  Mr. 
Philliraore  has  collected  a  large  amount  of  material  that  will  be  indispensable  in 
compiling  a  genealogy  of  the  family.  It  is  illustrated  with  a  portrait  of  John 
Trotman,  inventor  of  the  li  Trotman  Anchor." 

The  Kirkland  pamphlet  and  the  "  Xoyes  Inscription  and  Memoranda"  are 
reprints  from  the  Register  for  January  1801. 

The  pamphlet  on  the  Fuller  family  is  a  reprint  from  the  "  Dedham  Historical 
Register"  for  October  1803.  It  gives  a  record  of  the  early  generations  of  the 
Dedham  family. 

The  ninth  number  of  Mr.  Dudley's  "  History  of  the  Dudley  Family"  is  issued. 
This  number,  with  another  which  will  soon  be  issued  to  be  devoted  entirely  to 
an  index,  will  complete  the  work,  and  make  a  volume  of  over  a  thousand  pages. 
This  number  contains  genealogical  and  biographical  matter  relating  to  several 
families  descended  from  Governor  Thomas  Dudley,  and  is  illustrated  with 
portraits.  In  the  whole  work  a  mass  of  information  is  preserved  relative  to  the 
Dudley  family  and  its  kindred. 


RECENT   PUBLICATIONS, 

PRESENTED    TO    THE    NeW-En'GLAND    HISTORIC    GENEALOGICAL   SOCIETY   FROM    DEC.    1, 

1893,  to  March  15, 1894. 
Prepared  by  Walter  K.  Watkixs,  Assistant  Librarian. 
I.  Publications  written  or  edited  by  Members  of  the  Society. 

Refutation  of  the  alleged  ill-treatment  of  Captain  Fenton's  wife  and  daughter. 
By  Samuel  A.  Green,  M.D.,  1804.     8vo.  pp.  44. 

The  Career  of  Benjamin  Franklin.     By  Samuel  A.  Green,  M.D.    Phila.    1894. 
8vo.,  pp.  II. 

Origin  and  Growth  of  the  Library  of  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society. 
By  Saniuel  A.  Green,  M.D.     Cambridge.     1893.     8vo.  pp.  35. 

Memoir  of    Hon.  Levi    Woodbury,   LL.D.      By   Charles    Levi  Woodbury. 
Boston.     1804.     8vo.  pp.  10. 

The  University  Library  and  the  University  Curriculum.     By  Wm.  F.  Poole, 
LL.D.     Chicago;  New  York ;  Toronto.     1804.     lGmo.  pp.  55. 

Memoir  of  "the  Hon.  Josiah  G.  Abbott,  LL.D.     By  Charles  Cowley,  LL.D. 
Boston.     1892.     8vo.  pp.  92. 


1894.]  Recent  Publications.  239 

An  Alphabetical  Abstract  of  the  Record  of  Births  in  the  Town  of  Dedham, 
Mass.  1S44-1S90.  Compiled  by  Don  Gleason  Hill.  Dedham.  1894.  8vo.  pp. 
xviii.  +  208. 

Sixth  Report  on  the  Custody  and  Condition  of  the  Public  Records  of  Parishes, 
Towns  and  Counties.     By  Robert  T.  Swan.     Boston.     1894.     Svo.  pp.  07. 

Noyes  Inscription  and  Memoranda.  By  James  Atkins  Xoyes,  A.B.,  Ph.B. 
Boston.     1894.     Svo.  pp.  4. 

Rev.  Stephen  Peabody  and  Wife  of  Atkinson,  N.  H.  By  Wm.  C.  Todd,  A.M. 
Boston.     1894.     Svo.  pp.  13. 

On  a  Painting  of  St.  Barbara  in  the  Church  of  St.  Lawrence,  Cucklington, 
Somerset.     By  the  Rev.  F.  W.  Weaver,  M.A.     1S93.     pp.  12. 

II.     Other  Publications. 

Uniforms  of  the  Army  of  the  United  States,  illustrated,  from  1774  to  18S9, 
authorized  by  the  Secretary  of  War.     Washington.     Folio  pp.  71 — plates  44. 

Stephen  Ambrose  Walker.     1S93.     Svo.  pp.  36. 

Dr.  George  Chandler.     1894.     4to.  pp.  14. 

Memorial  of  Rev.  J.  II.  Bisbee.     1893.     12rao.  pp.  G4. 

Transactions  of  the  Royal  Historical  Society.  New  Series.  Vol.  VII. 
London.     1893.     Svo.  pp.  323. 

Catalogue  of  the  Library  of  the  Long  Island  Historical  Society.  1863-1S93. 
Brooklyn.     1893.     4to.  pp.  801. 

Documents  Relating  to  the  Colonial  History  of  the  State  of  New  Jersey. 
Journal  of  the  Governor  and  Council.  Vol.  V.  175G-170S.  Vol.  VI.  17G9- 
1775.     Trenton.     1893.     Svo.  pp.  538  and  581. 

Annual  Reports  of  the  Historical  and  Philosophical  Society  of  Ohio  for  the 
year  ending  Dec.  4,  1893.     Cincinnati.     1893.     Svo.  pp.  1G.